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Nov06A 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 30 letters and consonant digraphs used are:
a á b c č ç d e é f g h i í k l m n o ó p r s š t þ u ú v w x y z ž 'j q aren'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 and 2 diphthongs. The diphthongs are: [ai] ai and [au] au.

All other vowel sequences are disyllabic.

Vowels
  front central back
high i i - - - u u
low-mid - ɛ e - - - ɔ o -
low - a a - -

An acute accent marks a penult or ultima vowel as long, but only when necessary.

Consonant Qualities

There are 27 consonant phonemes using 29 phones.

Consonants
  labial coronal dorsal guttural
nasal voiced m m - - n n* - ɲ n* ŋ n* - -
stop voiced b b - - d d - - g g gw - -
voiceless p p - - t t - - k k kw - ʔ '
affricate voiced - - d͡z z d͡ʒ ž - -
voiceless - - t͡s c t͡ʃ č - -
fricative voiced - v v - - - -
voiceless - f f θ þ s s ʃ š ç ç - ʍ hw χ x h h
rhotic voiced - - r r - - -
vocoid voiced - - l l - j y - -

Phonotactics

The following rhyme types appear:

light: -V
heavy: -Vː, -VV, -VC

Prosody

Stress is syllable-timed. All independent words are stressed, so words of 1 syllable stress the ultima.

Words of 2 syllables stress the ultima if it's heavy and the penult is light; otherwise, the penult is stressed.

Words of 3 or more syllables stress the penult if it's heavy; otherwise, the antepenult is stressed.

Morphophonology

Vowel Alterations

This applies to regular stems. The last column applies at the end of a word. The last row is for consonant stems.

Vowel Alterations
Vowel +CI +CU +i +u +o #
i iC iC i u e i
u uC uC i u o u
e iC uC e o a
a eC oC ai au a a
Ci Cu i u o?

Consonant Alterations

The following table shows the phonetic results of consonant-glide combinations:

Consonant Alterations
Consonant C + j C + w
k -
g -
x ç ʍ

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