C0 Constructed Language

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C0 Phonology and Orthography

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in QAPA) with the corresponding orthographic symbols.

Vowel Qualities

There are 5 written vowel phonemes, occurring both short and long. There's also an unwritten schwa, inserted between certain consonant pairs for easier pronunciation. There are 6 diphthongs (eu, ai, au, oi, ea, and oa).

Vowel Qualities

	unrounded				rounded
	front		center		back
high	i	i	-		u	u
high-mid	e	e	-		o	o
low-mid	E		V\		O
low	-		A\	a	-

Consonant Qualities

There are 21 written consonant phonemes, most of which can occur long as well as short. An unwritten glottal stop may occur as well.

Consonant Qualities

		labial				coronal				dorsal				guttural
stop	voiceless	p	p	-		t	t	-		-		k	k	?
	voiced	b	b	-		d	d	-		-		g	g	-
affricate	voiceless	-		-		-		tS)	c	-		-		-
	voiced	-		-		-		dZ)	j	-		-		-
nasal	voiced	m	m	-		n	n	-		J	ñ	N	n	-
fricative	voiceless	-		f	f	s	s	S	x	-		X	q	h	h
	voiced	-		v	v	z	z	Z	y	-		-		-
trill	voiced	-		-		r	r	-		-		-		-
vocoid	voiced	-		-		l	l	-		-		-		-

Syllables and Prosody

Syllables are CV, CVV, and CVC. Syllables without written onsets may occur initially.

Stress is on the penult.

Phonotactics

Currently, any consonant can occur finally except b, d, g, j, ñ, and h.

The written language allows medial clusters consisting of any 2 different consonants. In many cases, however, schwas are inserted. The cases where schwa isn't inserted usually includes the following:

• r followed by any consonant except l
• a plosive preceded by a homorganic nasal
• 2 different voiceless plosives
• a voiceless fricative excluding h followed by a voiceless plosive or a nasal excluding ñ
• a voiced fricative followed by a voiced plosive or a nasal excluding ñ
• l followed by a plosive or a nasal excluding ñ

page started: 2012.Aug.05 Sun
current date: 2012.Aug.05 Sun
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