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Oct19A Phonology and Orthography

Legend: Definitions, Terms, <Text>, [IPA], -Tags-, and "Glosses".

Letters and Sounds

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in IPA) with the corresponding orthographic (romanization) symbols. The 26 letters and consonant digraphs used are:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u w x y z ' — v isn't used.

In the following tables, an asterisk * indicates that the letter is used for more than one sound.

Vowel Qualities

There are 5 vowel phonemes (7 phones) and 3 diphthongs. The diphthongs are: [ai] ai, [au] au, and [ɔi] oi.

No other vowel sequences appear.

Vowels

	front								central		back
high	i	i	-						-		-				u	u
high-mid	-		e	e*	-				-		-		o	o	-
low-mid	-				ɛ	e*	-		-		-
low	-						a	a*	-		ɑ	a*	-

• The allophones [ɛ] and [ɑ] appear in closed syllables while [e] and [a] appear in open syllables.

Consonant Qualities

There are 21 consonant phonemes using 23 phones.

Consonants

		labial				coronal						dorsal								guttural
nasal	voiced	m	m	-		-		n	n*	-		ɲ	n*	ŋ	n*	-				-
stop	voiced	b	b	-		-		d	d	-		-		g	g	-				-
	voiceless	p	p	-		-		t	t	-		-		k	k	-				ʔ	'
affricate	voiced	-				-				d͡ʒ	j	-								-
	voiceless	-				-				t͡ʃ	c	-								-
fricative	voiced	-				-		z	z	-		-								-
	voiceless	-		f	f	-		s	s	ʃ	x	-						χ	q	h	h
rhotic	voiced	-				-		r	r	-		-								-
vocoid	voiced	-				-		l	l	-		j	y	-		w	w	-		-

• Coda n assimilates to the following onset: the allophone [m] appears before p, b, and m and the allophone [ɲ] appears before y and the allophone [ŋ] appears before g, k, w, and fricatives (except h); otherwise, the allophone [n] appears.

Phonotactics

• The onset is a single consonant phoneme.
• The letter ' is not written initially.
• The consonant y appears only before u, o, a, and au.
• The consonant w appears only before i, e, a, and ai.

The following rhyme types appear:

light: -V
heavy: -VV, -VC

• The vowel u appears only in open syllables.
• The possible coda consonants are n, r, s, and k.
• The coda s appears as [z] before a voiced obstruent.

Prosody

Glyph and Phoneme Mapping

General Glyphs

There are 20 general glyphs and they appear in pairs. The top glyph is mapped onto the onsets while the bottom glyph is mapped onto the rhymes. The 1st and 2nd entries following each glyph represent onsets and the 3rd represents rhymes.

General Glyph Mapping

#	+ 0				+ 1				+ 2				+ 3
0		m	y	u		n	y	au		l	y	a		*	y	o
4		p	w	i		t	w	e		c	w	ai		k	w	oi*
8		b	w	in		d	w	en		j	y	an		g	y	on
12		f	w	ir		s	w	er		x	y	ar		q	y	or
16		'	w	is		z	w	es		r	y	as		h	y	os

• The onsets y and w alternate, according to the 2nd onset column.
• The rhyme oi is replaced by a after w.

Numeric Glyphs

There are 20 additional glyphs used only for numeric values.

Numeric Glyph Mapping

#	+ 0		+ 1		+ 2		+ 3
0		mik		nek		lak		yok
4		pik		tek		cak		kok
8		bok		dak		jek		gik
12		fok		sak		xek		qik
16		'ik		zek		rak		hok

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current date: 2016.Nov.01 Tue
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