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=== Nasals ===
=== Nasals ===


* '''m''' - /m/ >>
In '''anyomo''' each nasal consonant has a geminate counterpart, and gemination is lexically contrastive.
* '''n''' - /n/ >>
 
* '''ny''' - /ɲ/
* '''m''' - /m/ >> /mː/
* '''n''' - /n/ >> /nː/
* '''ny''' - /ɲ/ >> /ɲː/


== Vowels ==
== Vowels ==

Revision as of 08:27, 15 January 2020



Introduction

Phonology

Consonants

Stops

  • t - /t/ >> /tʰ/
  • k - /k/ >> /kʰ/
  • kw - /kʷ/

Nasals

In anyomo each nasal consonant has a geminate counterpart, and gemination is lexically contrastive.

  • m - /m/ >> /mː/
  • n - /n/ >> /nː/
  • ny - /ɲ/ >> /ɲː/

Vowels

There are only three phonemic vowels: /a e o/. They can be long or short and be one of three tones. Length can be lexical, but tone is strictly phonemic.

Tones

Phonemic tones...

  • level "˧"
  • rising "˨˦"
  • falling "˥˩"

Morphosyntax

anyomo is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

Derivation

Nominalization

Lexicon

affixes

roots

  • nyom

Phrases