Talk:Uínlītska

My notes in progress

Inuktitut

Syl struct is something like (C)V(:|j|w)(C).

Morphology that creates CCC sequences always has a deletion rule. For Finlaesk, this will probably become phonemic CCC sequences, due to the odd couple of polysegmental phonemes.

Sandhi occurs by "Manner of Articulation" (voiced, voiceless, or nasal). E.g. /ipti/ is legal, but /inti/ and /iqgi/ are not. Generally, this is done by regressive assimilation, maybe to the point of gemination. Greenlandic tends to use progressive assimilation. Some consonants in C1C2 sequences force C2:, which varies from dialect to dialect.

Ojibwe

Word structure seems to be V^?(CC^?V)⁺(CC^?)^?

Consonants

p b	t d		k ɡ	ʔ
	s z	ʃ ʒ		h
		tʃ dʒ
m	n
		j	ɰ

The phoneme /n/ allophonically becomes /ŋ/ immediately before the velars /k/, /g/, /ɰ/

The allowable medial consonant clusters are /mb/, /nd/, /ŋg/, /nj/, /nz/, /ns/, /nʒ/, /sk/, /ʃp/, /ʃt/ and /ʃk/, or any cluster with a second element of /ɰ/. The allowable final consonant clusters are /nd/, /ŋg/, /nj/, /ns/, /nʒ/ and /ʃk/. Initial consonant clusters are disallowed.

Vowels

Short

ɪ
	ə	o

Long

iː
eː		oː
	ɑː

Long vowels may be nasalized, either phonemically or allophonically (before /nj/ where both cons are deleted, before nasal+fricative clusters with nasal deletion in most dialects -- in some dialects, nasalization allophony occurs before all fricatives), and short vowels may be allophonically nasalized. That seems like a curious set of assertions to make, but Wikipedia Is Never Wrong™.