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 'Erhua' with the diminutive suffix ''-er'' / ''-r'' (derived from AW ''Schast'' 'baby') /-ɐ/ may occur.
-<poem>
+===Tones===
-for vowels I might keep MW vowels except /æ æː/ and /ɑ ɑː/ merge into /a aː/
-i have to reinterpret /ja je iːa jaː wa wo uːa waː ɥa ɥø yːa ɥaː/ into Vr
-> err, irr, ier, ehr, orr, urr, uhr, ohr, örr, ürr, ühr, öhr?
-what about /əː/?
-i'll merge it with /aː/
-i might write the /aː/ from /əː/ as <ahr>
-/j/ /w/ <-j -w> (ai and au are true nuclei)
-qei sounds good
-Partartian will have breathy voice btw
-i'll give the rzaimy-like language a different name
-final fricative > breathy (with compensatory lengthening) > falling tone
-Qêi
-there's no glottalized tone class unlike in RW (treated the same as breathy tone)
-(high, low ) x (modal, breathy) = 4 tones
-nice
-maybe 4 tones as in mandarin
 high modal = tone 2, high breathy = tone 3; low modal = tone 4, low breathy = tone 1
-</poem>
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