Upper Imstian Phonology
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This site describes the phonology of Upper Imstian tending to the local idiom of Imst (Iisch, adj. iischlorisch). As mentioned in the main article, there is no official orthography used for the language. Nevertheless here it is tried to establish one based partly on German.
Consonants
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | ḅ (b) | t | ḍ (d) | k | ġ (g) | q (g, k) | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v (w) | s | ʃ (sch) | χ (ch) | |||||||||||
| Affricate | pf | ʦ (tz) | ʧ (tsch) | |||||||||||||
| Approximants | j | |||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | ʀ (rr) | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
- [q] is an allophone of [k] and [ġ] and only appears in front of [ʀ]: krromo ['qʀɔmʌ] come (participle).
- [ʀ] developed from Germanic *kw > Old Upper Imstian chw. It is not an allophone of original [r]: rremo ['ʀɛmʌ] to come vs. krozzo ['krɔʦ:ʌ] to scratch.
