User:MIGUELbM/Muna v3.0

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Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial		Labiodental		Alveolar		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n
Plosive	p	b			t	d	k	g
Flap / tap						ɾ
Fricative			f		s		x
Approximant				ʋ		l			h

Vowels

	Front	Near- front	Central	Near- back	Back
Close	i ɨ u e̞ o̞ ä
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Phonotactics

Syllables are minimally V and maximally CrVVK

Syllable structure

Syllable
Onset	Medial	Nucleus	Coda
(C)	(r)	V (V)	(K)
Any consonant	/ɾ/	Any vowel Any diphthong	/n/ /s/ /ɾ/ /l/

• Medial /ɾ/ can only go after a voiceless consonant and reduces to [l] after a fricative.
• Coda /n/ and /s/ assimilate by place of articulation to the following consonant
• Intersyllabic /ɾ.ɾ/ are fortitioned into /r./

Stress

It has a pitch-accent system that is mostly used to differentiate verbs from non-verbs.

Grammar summary

Basic sentence structure is SOXV, or Subject Object Oblique Verb.

Clause types

Relative

Muna uses a gapping strategy with a participle marking in the verb

[late come-ptcp] girl-agt sad

The girl [who came late] is sad.

Comparative

Muna uses an exceed type of comparative, in which a verb roughly meaning 'to exceed' is used with the two compared arguments.

Nouns

Verbs