Dundulanyä: Difference between revisions
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The {{IPA|/pʰ/}} phoneme is mostly a invention of Dundulanyä grammarians to preserve symmetry in stops; it has a separate letter in the script, but as a phoneme it is only found in the name of the letter itself and in a few words of onomatopoeic origin; the vast majority of contemporary speakers merge it with {{IPA|/ɸ~f/}}. | The {{IPA|/pʰ/}} phoneme is mostly a invention of Dundulanyä grammarians to preserve symmetry in stops; it has a separate letter in the script, but as a phoneme it is only found in the name of the letter itself and in a few words of onomatopoeic origin; the vast majority of contemporary speakers merge it with {{IPA|/ɸ~f/}}. | ||
With the partial exception of {{IPA|/ħ/}} and {{IPA|/ʀ/}}, words may only end in soft consonants. | With the partial exception of {{IPA|/ħ/}} and {{IPA|/ʀ/}}, words may only end in soft consonants and/or clusters of an approximant followed by a single soft stop or fricative. | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||