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Maltcégj is also written using a featural alphabet which treats the vowels as diacritics, and also uses diacritics to describe manner of articulation and consonant clusters. In all there are only seven “letters”; all other phonetic functions are filled by diacritics or modifications of these seven characters. (Actually, there are really only four: the labial, dental, palatal, and glottal forms are just directional variations of the same character, and the rhotic is just a turned lambdic.) | Maltcégj is also written using a featural alphabet which treats the vowels as diacritics, and also uses diacritics to describe manner of articulation and consonant clusters. In all there are only seven “letters”; all other phonetic functions are filled by diacritics or modifications of these seven characters. (Actually, there are really only four: the labial, dental, palatal, and glottal forms are just directional variations of the same character, and the rhotic is just a turned lambdic.) | ||
[ | The default characters are the voiced continuants. (NB: The default form is used by /h/ because there is no unvoiced equivalent.) | ||
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! !! Labial !! Dental !! Alveolar !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal !! Lambdic !! Rhotic | |||
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| Coninuant<br>Unvoiced|| Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example | |||
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| Continuant<br>Voiced|| Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example | |||
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| Stop<br>Unvoiced|| Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example | |||
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| Stop<br>Voiced|| Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example || Example | |||
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[More coming soon...] | |||
===Phonology=== | ===Phonology=== |