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=== Phonotactics ===
=== Phonotactics ===
Syllables in Kiswóna have the shape (C)(C)V(n/l). Coda l is very rare.
Syllables in Kiswóna have the shape (C)(C)V(n/l). Coda l is very rare and tends to be subject to subject to sound changes if the following syllable has an onset.
 
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| nk || nk ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| tŷ || tŷ ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| dy || dy ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| kŷ || kŷ ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| gy || gy ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| ng || ng ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| kŵ || kŵ ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| gl || gl ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| || nq ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| kl || kl ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| || ns ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| || nŝ ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| || nŷ ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| || nh ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
|-
| || nts ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
|-
| || nc ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| || ns ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| nw || nw ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
|-
| ny || ny ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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| nl || nl ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| || ||style="border-left:1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| ||
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Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes.
Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes.



Revision as of 14:52, 23 August 2012




Kiswóna
Pronounced: [kizwo˦na]
Species: Ondasi
Typology
Morphological type: Agglutinating
Morphosyntactic alignment: Fluid-S
Basic word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: User:Babelfish

About

Kiswona is the lingua franca and literary/liturgical language of the Ondasi nation.

Phonology

Phoneme Inventory

Consonants

Consonants
Bilabial Dental Alveolar Post-alv. Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal n /n/
Plosive t /t/ d /d/ k /k/ g /g/ q /ʔ/
Fricative s /s/ ŝ /ʃ/ ŷ /ç/ h /x/
Affricate ts /ts/ c /t͡ʃ/
Approximants ŵ /ʍ/ w /w/ y /j/
Lateral Fricative tl /ɬ/
Lateral Approximant l /l/


Vowels

Vowels
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back
High i u
Near-high
High-mid e o
Mid
Low-mid
Near-low
Low a


There is a phonemic distinction between short and long vowels, long vowels are indicated in the orthography by doubling.

Phonotactics

Syllables in Kiswóna have the shape (C)(C)V(n/l). Coda l is very rare and tends to be subject to subject to sound changes if the following syllable has an onset.

Legal onsets
Initial Medial Initial Medial Initial Medial Initial Medial Initial Medial Initial Medial
nd nd dw dw ks ks gw gw
nk nk dy dy gy gy
ng ng gl gl
nq kl kl
ns
nh
nts
nc
ns
nw nw
ny ny
nl nl


Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes.

Allophony

Prosody

Morphology