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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===CALS: Phonology=== | |||
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| Consonant Inventories || Moderately Large | |||
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| Vowel Quality Inventories || Large (7 - 14) | |||
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| Consonant-Vowel Ratio || Moderately High | |||
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| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives || In both plosives and fricatives | |||
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| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems || None missing in /p t k b d g/ | |||
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| Uvular Consonants || None | |||
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| Glottalized Consonants || No glottalized consonants | |||
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| Lateral Consonants || /l/, no obstruent laterals | |||
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| The Velar Nasal || No initial velar nasal | |||
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| Vowel Nasalization || Contrast absent | |||
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| Front Rounded Vowels || None | |||
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| Syllable Structure || Moderately Complex | |||
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| Tone || Complex tone system | |||
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| Fixed Stress Locations || No fixed location | |||
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| Weight-Sensitive Stress || Unbounded: Stress can be anywhere | |||
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| Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems || Long vowel or coda consonant | |||
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| Rhythm Types|| Undetermined | |||
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| Absence of Common Consonants || All present | |||
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| Presence of Uncommon Consonants || None | |||
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Modernized Lefso's phonology is the system of sounds used in Lefso pronunciation. Unless otherwise noted, this covers the Navoc Hook dialect. | |||
There is no overall consensus on the number of phonemes–with at least 12 being registered. Phonetic length and tone are significant in the language (for vowels and consonants). Some consonant clusters exist but have dwindled in number following the Great Japonic Kick. Modernized Lefso has a very significant pitch accent, where the location or absence of a pitch modification may alter the word, usually marked “excessively”. For example, in khorosho, /khrosho↓/ (okay), and /khrosho↑/ (shotgun). Tone systems are complex and are often marked differently depending on context. | |||
Phonotactics within Modernized Lefso is influenced by layers of English, Japanese, and Russian, causing a gradient of words to form across the language. | |||
===Lexical Strata=== | |||
Modernized Lefso is a blend of linguistic vocabulary, and can be broadly divided into four categories based upon origin. | |||
====Odinji==== | |||
Odinji describes all native Lefso words and loanwords preceding Middle Lefso. | |||
====Nihoji==== | |||
Nihoji comprises all introduced loanwords of Japanese origin within succeeding timeframes of Middle Lefso, usually introduced within the Lefso Modernizations. Consonant clusters are heavily confined, with the presence of vowel harmony. | |||
====Rusiji==== | |||
Rusiji comprises all introduced Russian loanwords within timeframes succeeding Middle Lefso. Consonant clusters are exceedingly common within this category. | |||
====Foreji==== | |||
Foreji comprises all introduced loanwords that don’t fall into the prior two categories. | |||
===Orthography=== | ===Orthography=== | ||