Hemackle
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Hemackle Ghmachle | |
Spoken in: | (country) |
Total speakers: | (number of speakers) |
Genealogical classification: | (Indo-European)
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Basic word order: | SVO (V2) |
Morphological type: | inflecting |
Morphosyntactic alignment: | Accusative |
Created by: | |
Zeke Fordsmender | 2003 to present |
Consonants | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | pʰ | b | tʰ | d | kʰ | |||||||||||||
Fricative | fʰ | v | sʰ | z | ʃʰ | xʰ | ɣ | χʰ | h | |||||||||
Affricate | ʧʰ | ʤ | ||||||||||||||||
Approximants | ɹʷ | j | ɰʷ | |||||||||||||||
Trill | ʀ | |||||||||||||||||
Lateral Approximant | l |
[ʀ] is pronounced [χʰ] before [pʰ] and [kʰ], and is silent before [sʰ], [tʰ], [d], [n], and [l], and after [ɛː].
There is no agreement in the literature regarding the precise articulation of /w/ and /gh/ (when realized as an approximant). The dispute lies in whether or not the sound may be considered a labialized velar approximant, or a true labiovelar one. Although the complex historical relationship between Proto-Germanic *ɡ and <w> seems to imply a labialized velar approximant, in the present language both [ɰʷ] ( [w] ) and [ɰ͡β̞] may be heard in dialect, and so to avoid confusion the authors have chosen to use the graph <ɰʷ> in describing this sound.