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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
that's the jokey element in Nurian (a Russian trying to imitate Tamil and sounding English in the process) | |||
As a result of a series of historical palatalizations, Nurian has many consonants in hard (velarized) and soft (palatalized) versions, similar to Lithuanian and Russian; however, many consonants (namely retroflexes, radicals and /h/) cannot palatalize in Standard Nurian. | As a result of a series of historical palatalizations, Nurian has many consonants in hard (velarized) and soft (palatalized) versions, similar to Lithuanian and Russian; however, many consonants (namely retroflexes, radicals and /h/) cannot palatalize in Standard Nurian. | ||