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10. Ushnagos Expressions
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11. Ushnagos Pronouns
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Ushnagos uses a six-vowel system, /a e i o u ə/. All vowels, including the schwa, are treated identically and are not pronounced differently when unstressed[See Note 1]. There are no diphthongs or grammatically vowel prosodies. The vowels follow a pseudo three-way vowel harmony by being in 3 different vowel "classes": A, I, & U. Each class has a "strong" vowel (/a i u/ respectively) and a "weak" vowel (/ə e o/ respectively) which are used in conjugating verbs.
Ushnagos also has 23 consonants. 7 of the consonants (/ɾ l j ʋ m n ŋ/) are always pronounced they same way, while 16 of the consonants (/p b t d k g ɸ β s z x ɣ ʃ ʒ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ/) are modified when they are adjacent to their pair. In such a case, the first phoneme becomes silent while the other is geminated. For example, /pb/ becomes /bː/.
The language has antepenultimate primary stress and ultimate stress. If the word is at least three syllables long, the vowel in the penultimate syllable is shortened to half length.
There is a (C)V(C) syllable structure with any consonant being able to appear at the beginning or ending of a syllable.
Ushnagos uses an alphabet that has a 1:1 glyph to phoneme ratio. That is, each glyph only represents one sound and vice versa[See Note 1]. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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