Phonology for my language

From: Sabrina Laurent (sabrina_l_g@yahoo.fr)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 00:23:58 EST


Hello to all the members!
As you can see, i keep my promises! Here's the phonology for my
language (Eamon helped me doing it). As i already said, it's pretty
much based on Spanish phonology. I might be done with the grammar
some time next week.
Enjoy!
Sabrina

Vowels:
[a] a
[e] e
[i] i
[o] o
[u] u

Diphthongs:
[ei] ei, ey
[ai] ai, ay
[oi] oi, oy
[@U] au
[eU] eu

Plosives:
[p] p
[b] b
[t] t
[d] d
[k] k
c/_o, a, u
qu/_e, i
[g] g/_o, a, u
gu/_i, e

Nasals:
[m] m
[n] n
[J] ni/_V

Trill:
[r] r

Fricatives:
[f] f
[v] v
[s] s
c/_i, e
[z] z
[S] sc/_i, e
sci/_o, a, u

Affricates:
[dZ] g/_i, e
[tS] ch

Approximants:
[j] y, i
[w] w, u/_V

Lateral approximants:
[l] l

In addition, there is also [kw] qu/_a, o and [gw] gu/_a, o.
The orthography also includes a mute h. Loanwords may have x
carrying
the value it would have in its language of origin.

Accentuation:
1- If the ending is a vowel, n or s the penultimate syllable is
accented.
2- If the ending is any consonant other than n or s the ultimate
syllable is accented.
3- In any other case, the accent would be indicated with an accute
accent mark.



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