Phonotactics
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Phonotactics
Syllable structure: (C)(C)V(C)(C)
Stress: Marked with an umlaut on a vowel or first letter in a diphthong within the syllable
Affricates are allophonic and do not count as one unit
Language Type: Agglutinative + Particles
Allophony
Voiceless plosives aspirated word-initially: /p, t, k, q/ → [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, qʰ]
Assimilation occurs: /mn/ → [m] or [n]
Voiceless fricatives weaken intervocalically: /f, θ, s, χ/ → [β, t, z, ħ]
Labialization and Palatalization:
C → Cʷ / w, u
C → Cʲ / y, i, _e
j, w → i, u / _#