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* Complex (more complex than CCVC: Basque, Germanic languages including English, Georgian)
* Complex (more complex than CCVC: Basque, Germanic languages including English, Georgian)


Moderately complex phonotactics
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrernte_language#Phonotactics Arrernte] has a very odd syllable structure for a natlang: VC(C)
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== Moderately complex phonotactics ==


* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_phonotactics Finnish]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_phonotactics Finnish]

Latest revision as of 10:33, 30 January 2012

Phonotactics or syllable structure deals with where phonemes and clusters of phonemes may occur in a syllable.

WALS divides syllable structure into

  • Simple (CV: Hawaiian, Swahili, Guarani...)
  • Moderately complex (CCVC: onset quite limited, Finnish, Turkish,Japanese...)
  • Complex (more complex than CCVC: Basque, Germanic languages including English, Georgian)

Arrernte has a very odd syllable structure for a natlang: VC(C)

Moderately complex phonotactics