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| *[[Trentish/Morphology]] | | *[[Trentish Phonology]] and Orthography |
| *[[Trentish/Lexicon]]
| | *[[Trentish Morphology]] |
| | | *[[Trentish Lexicon]] |
| ==[[Phonology]] and [[Orthography]]==
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| ===Phonemic Inventory===
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| ====Consonants====
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| ! !! labial !! alveolar !! palatal !! velar !! glottal
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| ! plosive
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| | p pʼ pʰ (pʷ?) || tʼ tʰ tʷ || c cʰ cʷ || k kʼ kʰ kʷ || ʔ
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| |-
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| ! nasal
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| | m || n || ɲ || ŋ
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| ! lateral
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| | || l tɬ
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| ! fricative
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| | || s ʃ || || x
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| |}
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| ====Vowels====
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| | i y || ʊ u
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| | e ø || o
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| |-
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| | || ʌ ɔ
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| |-
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| | || ɑ
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| |}
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| ====Orthography====
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| (''tentative'')
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| *b p ph t th tw dʼ tʼh tʼw g k kh kw q
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| *m n ny ng
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| *l ƛ
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| *s sh x
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| *i ü uh u
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| *e ö oh
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| *r o | |
| *a
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| No uppercase.
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| ===Internal [[Sandhi]]===
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| ====Word-level====
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| * Trentish words can only end in a vowel or a nasal. Stops and /l/ occurring at the end of a word are nasalized, thus /thɑk/ "wear" becomes [thɑŋ]. /ʔ/ and the other consonants are dropped.
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| ====Syllable-level====
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| =====Syllable-final=====
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| * Plain voiceless consonants disappear, lengthening the previous vowel:
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| *:/xlɔʔ/ "washed, clean" → [xlɔɔkʷʌ] "be washed".
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| * Ejectives and /l/ turn to nasals as at the word level:
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| *:/tʰɔl/ "upon" → [tʰɔŋkʷʌ] "be on top of".
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| * Labialized consonants reduce to [w]:
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| *:/kitʷ/ <small>COLL</small> → [kiwcʷecʷe] "set of journeys". | |
| * Aspirated consonants fricativize:
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| *:/pʼɑlɑkʰ/ "hate" → [pʼɑlɑxpʼɑlɑŋ] "grudge".
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| =====Syllable-initial after a nasal=====
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| * Aspirated stops are ejectivized by a preceding original nasal:
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| *:/tʰɑŋ/ "wear" → [xɑntʼɑŋ] "wear that"
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| * Labialized stops inherit preceding nasality:
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| *:/cʷe/ "go" → [xɑnɲʷe] "go up yonder".
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| * Plain stops are aspirated by a preceding nasal:
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| *:/pɑ/ <small>TOP</small> → [xɑnpʰɑ] "yonder"
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| * Ejective stops geminate a preceding nasal:
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| *:/pʼɑlɑŋ/ "hate" → [xɑmmɑlɑŋ] "hate that"
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| =====Syllable-inital after /ɲ/=====
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| * /ɲl/ > [ɲʎ]
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| * /ɲx/ > [ɲç]
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| * /ɲm/ > [ɲmʲ] ''etc.''
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