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Revision as of 15:55, 16 April 2018
Contents
Consonants
There are 18 consonants[1][2] in Lortho and all are strictly pronounced the same regardless of placement.
| 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[2]
| Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | ||
| Close | 
| |||||
| Near-close | ||||||
| Close-mid | ||||||
| Mid | ||||||
| Open-mid | ||||||
| Near-open | ||||||
| Open | ||||||
Diphthongs
There are four diphthongs in Lortho: [aɪ], [eɪ], [au], and [oɪ].
Phonotactics
Syllable Structure
The syllable structure is (C)V(V)(C).
- The syllables can be constructed as:
- V
- CV
- CVV
- VC
- CVC
- CVVC
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] e.g. the verb konpharo to speak)
- /ns/
- /pt/
- /rt/
- /sk/
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.
Intonation
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