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=== Phonotactics === | === Phonotactics === | ||
Syllables in Kiswóna have the shape (C)(C)V(n/l). Coda l is very rare. | |||
Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes. | |||
=== Allophony === | === Allophony === | ||
Revision as of 11:25, 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.
Hiatus is restricted, a glottal stop is inserted wherever it would occur due to morphological processes.
