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Vowel inventory
Consonant inventory
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==Phonology==
Ipeyól phonology is markedly different from Spanish's due to a combination of diachronic and language-contact influences. Ipeyól has a richer consonant and vowel inventory.
===History===
Palatalization
Voiceless stops palatalized before front vowels or /j/. Additionally, 

Consonant Inventory
{| class="wikitable"
|+Consonant phonemes
! colspan="2" |
!Labial
!Dental/Alv.
!Palatal/Postalv.
!Velar/Glottal
|-
! colspan="2" |Nasal
|<div style="text-align: center;">m<sup>1</sup></div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">n<sup>1</sup></div>
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|-
! rowspan="2" |Stop
!voiceless
|<div style="text-align: center;">p<sup>2</sup></div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">t<sup>2, 3</sup></div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">tʃ ⟨ch⟩</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">k<sup>2</sup></div>
|-
!voiced
|<div style="text-align: center;">b</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">d<sup>3</sup></div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">dʒ⟨j⟩</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">g</div>
|-
! rowspan="2" |Fricative
!voiceless
|<div style="text-align: center;">f</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">s<sup>4</sup></div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">ʃ⟨sh⟩</div>
|
|-
!voiced
|<div style="text-align: center;">v</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">z</div>
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Rhotic
|
|<div style="text-align: center;">ɾ⟨r⟩</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">ɹ⟨rr⟩</div>
|
|-
! colspan="2" |Liquid
|
|<div style="text-align: center;">l</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">j⟨y⟩</div>
|<div style="text-align: center;">w</div>
|}
# Ipeyól has a syllabic nasal, written in the orthography as <ń>. It, like the nasals themselves, generally assimilates to the place of articulation of the following consonant, such that ''ilsńbreru'', 'hat' is pronounced /il.zm̩.bɾe.ɾu/. The distinctions between the nasals are neutralized in some environments. For example, before a final /p/, /t/ or /k/ there is nearly always only one nasal sound that can appear in each case: [m], [n] or [ŋ] respectively. This effect can even occur across syllable or word boundaries.
# The voiceless stops /p t k/ are unaspirated.
# /t/ and /d/ are very often pronounced as a tap [ɾ] between a preceding stressed vowel and another vowel. The tap may occur in word boundaries.
# The phoneme /s/ is voiced before and after voiced consonants, as in ''ilsirrlu'' [il.ziɹ.lu].

Ipeyól has incorporated many words containing the voiceless alveolar affricates [t͡s] and  [t͡ɬ], present in many indigenous languages of Mexico 


Syllable structure
Stress
Intonation

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===Orthography===
===Consonants===

===Vowels===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Intonation====

===Phonotactics===
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===Morphophonology===

==Morphology and Grammar==
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==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Noun phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Sentence phrase===
===Dependent clauses===
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