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3. Demonstratives
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7. Relational verbs
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8. Relative clauses
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10. Topic and focus
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The phoneme inventory is as follows:
| labial | alveolar | velar | glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | round | plain | palatal | plain | round | plain | round | ||
| nasal | m | mʷ | n | ɲ | |||||
| voiceless stop | t | ts | tʃ | k | kʷ | ʔ | ʔʷ | ||
| voiced stop | b | bʷ | d | dz | dʒ | ||||
| voiceless fricative | f | fʷ | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | ||
| voiced fricative | v | z | ʒ | g | |||||
| continuant | r l | y | w | ||||||
front back
high i ĩ u ũ
mid e ẽ o
back ɛ a ã
Ortography:
| labial | alveolar | velar | glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | round | plain | palatal | plain | round | plain | round | ||
| nasal | m | mw | n | ny | |||||
| voiceless stop | t | ty | ky | k | kw | q | qw | ||
| voiced stop | b | bw | d | dy | gy | ||||
| voiceless fricative | f | fw | s | sy~xy | x | xw | h | ||
| voiced fricative | v | z | zy | g | |||||
| continuant | vw | r l | y | (gw) | |||||
Syllables
Syllables can be up to CCVC, with null onsets and codas and medials being . There are also minor syllables, of the form CV where V is a context-dependent predictable vowel (not written).
Phonological processes
A nasal in coda is pre-stopped if the preceding vowel is not nasal: kykwamq [t͡ʃⁱkʷaᵇm].
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