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===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
Indeyivroplu has quite a high level of freedom when it comes to phonotactics. There are | Indeyivroplu has quite a high level of freedom when it comes to phonotactics. There are 3 rules governing the scenarios where consonant clusters can break the Sonority Sequencing Principle: | ||
# = A single syllable may contain multiple adjacent nasals, fricatives, or plosives, as long as two of the same phoneme (disregarding voicedness) don’t occur adjacently within the syllable. | # = A single syllable may contain multiple adjacent nasals, fricatives, or plosives, as long as two of the same phoneme (disregarding voicedness) don’t occur adjacently within the syllable. | ||
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Additionally, there is a 4th phonotactic rule: | Additionally, there is a 4th phonotactic rule: | ||
* Individual morphemes (word stems) must ''always'' end in a consonant. Thus when a morpheme ends in a front vowel in its original language, it converts to <j>, while a final back vowel becomes <h>. | |||
*: This rule exists to more clearly mark the start of an inflection in a word, since all inflections begin with a vowel. | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||