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