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Tanemantin has a (C)V(C) syllable structure. The vowel is the only compulsory element of a syllable, and CC clusters only occur word-internally. Most potential clusters are attested in the language except for fricative-fricative clusters, which simplified to single fricatives at an earlier stage (in the native orthography fricative-fricative clusters still appear, e.g. '''axu''' ''the Moon'' is written ath.xu), and clusters including one of /j w/ (which presumably simplified before the modern orthography was set, e.g. '''danē''' ''yam'' from Sarim ''θanwɛr''. Word finally, only '''m t d n s th r l h''' occur. | Tanemantin has a (C)V(C) syllable structure. The vowel is the only compulsory element of a syllable, and CC clusters only occur word-internally. Most potential clusters are attested in the language except for fricative-fricative clusters, which simplified to single fricatives at an earlier stage (in the native orthography fricative-fricative clusters still appear, e.g. '''axu''' ''the Moon'' is written ath.xu from Sarim ''*ɛtsux(u)'' ), and clusters including one of /j w/ (which presumably simplified before the modern orthography was set, e.g. '''danē''' ''yam'' from Sarim ''*θanwɛr''. Word finally, only '''m t d n s th r l h''' occur. | ||
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Tanemantin is one of the Ke:tic languages and a descendent of the classical language Sarim.
Phonology
Tanemantin distinguishes between 16 consonant phonemes
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
| Plosive/Affricate | p /pʰ/ b /p/ | t /tʰ/ d /t/ | j /ʨ/ | k /kʰ/ g/k/ | ||
| Fricative | f /f/ | th /θ/ | s /s/ | x /ɕ/ | h /h/ | |
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ||||
| Liquid | w /w/ | r /ɾ/ l /l/ | y /j/ |
The ten vowel phonemes are a e i u ā ē ī ū ai au /a e i u a: e: i: u: aj aw/. Vowel length is phonemic, and length alteration a fairly important part of Tanemantin morphology. /aj aw/ are considered to be long vowels, and their corresponding short forms /i u/.
Syllable Structure
Tanemantin has a (C)V(C) syllable structure. The vowel is the only compulsory element of a syllable, and CC clusters only occur word-internally. Most potential clusters are attested in the language except for fricative-fricative clusters, which simplified to single fricatives at an earlier stage (in the native orthography fricative-fricative clusters still appear, e.g. axu the Moon is written ath.xu from Sarim *ɛtsux(u) ), and clusters including one of /j w/ (which presumably simplified before the modern orthography was set, e.g. danē yam from Sarim *θanwɛr. Word finally, only m t d n s th r l h occur.
