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! Grapheme !! IPA Symbol !! Description and Notes | |||
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| | | k || [k] || Voiceless velar plosive | ||
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| | | p || [p] || Voiceless bilabial plosive | ||
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| | | t || [t] || Voiceless dental plosive | ||
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| | | n || [n] || (Voiced) alveolar nasal. Can be pronounced as [ŋ] before k and g. | ||
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| | | m || [m] || (Voiced) bilabial nasal | ||
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| | | s || [s] || Voiceless alveolar fricative | ||
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| | | j || [j] || Palatal approximant | ||
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| | | š || [ʃ] || Voiceless post-alveolar fricative | ||
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| | | č || [t͡ʃ] || Voiceless post-alveolar fricative | ||
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| | | r || [ɾ] || Alveolar tap | ||
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| | | b || [b] || Voiced bilabial plosive | ||
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| | | g || [g] || Voiced velar plosive | ||
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| | | d || [d] || Voiced dental plosive | ||
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| | | đ || [d͡ʒ] || Voiced post-alveolar fricative | ||
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| z || [z] || Voiced alveolar fricative | |||
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! Grapheme !! IPA Symbol !! Description and notes | |||
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| | | a || [a] || Open front unrounded vowel | ||
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| | | e || [e] || Close mid-front unrounded vowel | ||
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| | | i || [i] || Close front unrounded vowel | ||
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| | | o || [o] || Close mid-back rounded vowel | ||
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| | | u || [u] || Close back rounded vowel | ||
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| ö || | | ö || [ø] || Close mid-front rounded vowel | ||
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====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||
Stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable of the word, but it can sometimes be on the last syllable too. Stress | Stress is usually on the second-to-last syllable of the word, but it can sometimes be on the last syllable too. Stress usually doesn't change the meaning of a word. | ||
====Intonation==== | ====Intonation==== | ||
* To indicate that a sentence is a question, the pitch of the last syllable sharply rises. | |||
* When there are two or more adjectives modifying a noun, or there is a list of nouns or there is a list of choices, the pitch of the last syllables of all words except that of the last words fall. The final syllable of the last word rises. | |||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
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====Diphtongs==== | ====Diphtongs==== | ||
Note that the vowel "ö" is not allowed to form a | Note that the vowel "ö" is not allowed to form a diphthong. | ||
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===Consonant clusters==== | ====Consonant clusters==== | ||
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===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
There are | There are 11 noun cases that are marked on the '''noun''' in Yattano: transitive, intransitive, abessive, existive or ornative, derivative or inalienable possessive, genitive, equative, postpositional, final or benefactive, interal, distributive. There are also 12 cases that are marked on the '''verb''' rather than the noun: locative, dative or terminative, ablative or egressive, illative, causal-final (reason why), causal-final (cause of something), instrumental, cronitive, comitative, translative, adverbial, elative. | ||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||