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b. Nasals: <nowiki>/m n N J / <m n nh nn ></nowiki>
b. Nasals: <nowiki>/m n N J / <m n nh nn ></nowiki>


c. Fricatives: <nowiki>/ f B s z S T C/ <f v s z sh th kh ></nowiki>
c. Fricatives: <nowiki>/ f B s z Z T C/ <f v s z zh th kh ></nowiki>


d. Affricates: <nowiki>/ts  tS  dZ/ <ks ksh gh></nowiki>
d. Affricates: <nowiki>/ts  tS  dZ/ <ks ksh gh></nowiki>
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a. [N] occurs medially as an allophone of /n/
a. [4] occurs medially as a allophone of /r/


b. [dZ] occurs medially as an allophone of /j/
b. [@] occurs medially as a allophone of /a/




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a. CV(C)
a. (C)VC

Revision as of 18:13, 16 September 2007

Vaital
Spoken in: Northern Britian
Time Period: 6000 B.C.E - ?
Total speakers: extinct
Genealogical classification:

  Unknown

Basic word order: SOV
Morphological type: semi-fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment: Ergative-Absolutive
Created by:
Colton Booth July 27, 2007-

Vaital was created July 27, 2007. It is the language spoken in Britian before Gaelic Or Welsh


I. Phonology:

A. Phoneme Inventory:


a. Plosives: /p b t d k g/ <p b t d k g>

b. Nasals: /m n N J / <m n nh nn >

c. Fricatives: / f B s z Z T C/ <f v s z zh th kh >

d. Affricates: /ts tS dZ/ <ks ksh gh>

e. Lateral Approximants: /l/ <l>

f. Approximants: /r\ j/ <r y>

g. Vowels: /a e i o u ai au oi/ <a e i o u ai au oi>


B. Allophones:


a. [4] occurs medially as a allophone of /r/

b. [@] occurs medially as a allophone of /a/


C. Phonotactics


a. No consonant clusters consisting of only fricatives,plosives or approximants

b. The coda and onset cannot consist of more than two consonant sounds

c. Approximants also have to have a Plosive or only the following fricatives infront of them /f v s z h/ when ending a word.

d. /r\/ cannot come after /p b k s z g/

e. retroflex consonants can only come at the end of a word


D. Syllable Structure


a. (C)VC