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4. Typology
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The AKB wanted POT to be a symbol of the culture it was intended to represent. Therefore its rootemes were reduced to the number of twelve, each one inclusive of a wide spectrum of phonemes which can be derived from the general class by the notation of diacritics.
- pàlh (lip) stands for [p][pᵸ][β]
- hàws (dawn) stands for [ɐ][ə] and a few diphthongs [ɐj][ɐw][əj][əw]
- ϑànt (tooth) stands for [t][tᵸ][ð]
- nàhs (nose) stands for [m][n][ŋ] and their syllabic version
- càrt (heart) stands for [c][cᵸ][ʝ]
- jàk (speech) stands for [j] and its syllabic version [i]
- kàhn (to sing) stands for [k][kᵸ][ɣ]
- rànq (tongue) stands for [l][ɾ][ʀ] and theis syllabic version
- qàlh (to rotate) stands for [kʷ][kᵸʷ][ɣʷ]
- wàq (dusk) stands for [w] and its syllabic version [u]
- sàwh (noon) stands for [s] and its syllabic version
- hàhs (mouth) stands for each occurrence of laryngeals
Diacritics can be used on:
- 1/3/5/7/9 to distinguish plain plosives [p][t][c][k][kʷ] from epiglottalised ones [pᵸ][tᵸ][cᵸ][kᵸ][kᵸʷ] or voiced fricatives [β][ð][ʝ][ɣ][ɣʷ]
- 4/8 to distinguish labial set [m][l] from dental [n][ɾ] or velar [ŋ][ʀ] ones
- 2/6/10 to point the main stress of a word, which results for 2 in [ɐ]/[ə]
- syllabic version of 4/6/8/10 and 11 has no special mark
The alphabet is commonly addressed to as "pàtnci krqush".
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