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Revision as of 04:10, 15 November 2018
Contents
Consonants
There are 18 consonants in Lortho and all are strictly pronounced the same regardless of placement.
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Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
Plosive | p pʰ | b | t tʰ | d dʰ | k kʰ | |||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||
Lateral Approximant | l lʰ | |||||||||||
Tap or Flap | ɾ |
Vowels
Monophthongs[1]
Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||
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Diphthongs
Phonotactics
Syllable Structure
The syllable structure is (C)(C)V(V)(C).
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Consonant Clusters
There are very few consonant clusters allowed; however, clusters formed from adjacent syllables (i.e. coda + onset) are more common. These clusters are:
- /nd/
- /nt/ (which includes [ntʰ])
- /nk/ (with an allophone of [ŋk])
- /np/ (with an allophone of [mp])
- /ns/
- /pt/
- /rt/
- /sk/
- /pr/ (which includes [pʰr])
UPDATE: Consonant clusters are still being discovered. When this language was in its infancy, there were very few clusters allowed; however, more information has come to light that clusters are more common than originally thought.
Prosody
Stress
Stress in Lortho is handled as follows:
- Stress is always on the penultimate syllable of the root or infinitive except:
- -n verbs will always receive stress on the final syllable of the infinitive or root.
- Pluralized nouns will shift the stress to the penultimate syllable.
- If the word is two syllables long, then the stress is on the first syllable.
- Stress is neither given to prefixes nor suffixes.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 International Phonetic Alphabet. (2018, October 17). Retrieved from http://www.ipachart.com