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Dec22 Phonology and Orthography

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Letters and Sounds

The writing system used here is phonemic and uses ASCII letters.

The tables show the relevent phonetic symbols (in APA) with the corresponding romanization symbols. The 33 letters used in the romanization are:
a â b c ĉ d e ê f g h i î k l m n o ô p q r s ŝ t u û w x y z ẑ Ɂ — j is not used.

In the following tables, an asterisk * indicates letters with allophones.

Vowel Qualities and Quantities

There are 5 short oral vowels (6 phones), 5 long oral vowels, and 4 diphthongs. The diphthongs are «@i» oi, «@u» eu, «Ai» ai, and «&u» au.

Short Oral Vowels

	front										central		back
high-lax	-		I	i	-						-		-						U	u	-
low-mid	-						E	e	-		V\	a*	-		O	o	-
near-low	-								&	a*	-		-

Long Oral Vowels

	front										central		back
high	i:	î	-								-		-								u:	û
high-mid	-				e:	ê	-				-		-				o:	ô	-
low	-										-		A:	â	-

Consonant Qualities

There are 24 onset consonants and 22 coda consonants (24 phones).

Onset Consonants

		labial				coronal						dorsal								guttural
nasal	voiced	m	m	-		-		n	n	-		-								-
stop	voiceless	p	p	-		-		t	t	-		-		k	k	-				?	'
	voiced	b	b	-		-		d	d	-		-		g	g	-				-
affricate	voiceless	-				t)K	c	-		t)$	ĉ	-								-
	voiced	-				-				d)*	ẑ	-								-
fricative	voiceless	-		f	f	-		s	s	$	ŝ	-						X	x	h	h
	voiced	-		v	v	-		z	z	-		-						X^	q	-
rhotic	voiced	-				-		r	r	-		-								-
approximant	voiced	-				l	l	-				j	y	-		w	w	-		-

Coda Consonants

		labial				coronal						dorsal								guttural
nasal	voiced	m	m	-		-		n	n*	-		J	n*	N	n*	-				-
stop	voiceless	-				-						-								?	Ɂ
	ejective	p%	p	-		-		t%	t	-		-		k%	k	-				-
	voiced	b	b	-		-		d	d	-		-		g	g	-				-
affricate	voiceless	-				t)K	c	-		t)$	ĉ	-								-
	voiced	-				-				d)*	ẑ	-								-
fricative	voiceless	-		f	f	-		s	s	$	ŝ	-						X	x	h	h
	voiced	-		v	v	-		z	z	-		-						X^	q	-
rhotic	voiced	-				-		r	r	-		-								-
approximant	voiced	-				l	l	-				-								-

Phonotactics

Onsets

• An onset is a single consonant.

Rhymes

The following rhyme types appear, where VV is a long vowel or diphthong:

light: -V
heavy: -VC, -VV

• The allophone «V\» appears in open syllables while «&» appears in closed syllables.
• The vowels e and o appear only in closed syllables.
• The nasal n assimilates to the following plosive in point of articulation.
• Not all combinations of coda and onset occur.

Geminates

• The 17 geminates are mm, nn, pp, tt, kk, ɁɁ, tc, tĉ, ff, ss, ŝŝ, xx, vv, zz, qq, rr, ll.

Prosody

A weight-based stress is probably used.

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