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| (ìloN kwa): My first serious attempt at a constructed language, started July 2006. A work in (very) slow progress.
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| =Phonology=
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| Ilog-kwa uses 17 Roman letters to represent 17 (or 19?) phonemes.
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| /p t k/ <'''p t k'''>
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| /m n N/ <'''m n g'''>
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| /l j w/ <'''l y w'''>
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| /s S h/ <'''s x h'''>
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| /ts tS/ <'''ts tx'''> (I am not sure if these are phonemes; they only occur across syllable boundaries).
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| /a e i o u/ <'''a e i o u'''>
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| Allophones:
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| /T/ <'''t'''-coda followed by stop or nasal>
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| /x/ <'''k'''-coda followed by stop or nasal>
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| /K/ <'''l'''-coda followed by h>
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| There is no phonemic voicing or aspiration distinction.
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| From here on, I will write in the orthography.
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| ==Phonotactics== | |
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| Syllables may take these structures: (C) (C) V (C).
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| Legal onsets: null, any consonant, any non-approximant consonant + 1 approximant, '''l''' + '''w''' or '''y'''.
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| Legal nuclei: any vowel.
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| Legal codas: Any consonant, with the following execptions: '''p''' cannot be a coda. '''y''' cannot be the coda in a syllable with an '''e''' or '''i''' nucelus. '''w''' cannot be the coda in a syllable with an '''o''' or '''u''' nucleus.
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| ==Sandhi and Allophony== | |
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| '''t''' and '''k''' codas are spirantized when they are followed by a nasal or a stop, i.e. '''t''' becomes /T/ and '''k''' becomes /x/. | |
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| When '''l''' occurs next to '''h''' in either sequence, the resulting sound is /K/.
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| The silibants have a strong tendency to be voiced when they occur next to nasals. The stops also tend to be voiced in certain positions. Because voicing is non-phonemic, "wrong" voicing will not alter the meaning of any word or utterance.
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