Phonology
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Consonants
Atāni Saluso has 12 phonemic consonants.
Manner | Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | p | t | k | |||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ (sh) | x (h) | ||||||||
Approximant | j (y) | |||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
Vowels
Atāni Saluso has 5 phonemic vowels.
Height | Front | Central | Back |
|---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
Syllable Structure
Atāni Saluso has a syllable structure of (C)V.
Stress
Atāni Saluso has peninitial stress, meaning stress is put on the second syllable. The only exception is with long vowels. If a syllable in a word has a long vowel, that syllable will be stressed instead. When a word has two long vowels, it is always the first long vowel that is stressed (unless the first long vowel is an affix, then the second long vowel is stressed).