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==Inuktitut== | ==Inuktitut== | ||
Word structure is something like C<sup><nowiki>?</nowiki></sup>V(:|j|w)<sup><nowiki>?</nowiki></sup>C<sup><nowiki>?</nowiki></sup>(CV(:|j|w)<sup><nowiki>?</nowiki></sup>C<sup><nowiki>?</nowiki></sup>)<sup><nowiki>*</nowiki></sup> | |||
Morphology that creates CCC sequences always has a deletion rule. For Finlaesk, this will probably become '''phonemic''' CCC sequences, due to the odd couple of polysegmental phonemes. | Morphology that creates CCC sequences always has a deletion rule. For Finlaesk, this will probably become '''phonemic''' CCC sequences, due to the odd couple of polysegmental phonemes. | ||
Revision as of 13:13, 15 March 2007
My notes in progress
Inuktitut
Word structure is something like C?V(:|j|w)?C?(CV(:|j|w)?C?)*
Morphology that creates CCC sequences always has a deletion rule. For Finlaesk, this will probably become phonemic CCC sequences, due to the odd couple of polysegmental phonemes.
Sandhi occurs by "Manner of Articulation" (voiced, voiceless, or nasal). E.g. /ipti/ is legal, but /inti/ and /iqgi/ are not. Generally, this is done by regressive assimilation, maybe to the point of gemination. Greenlandic tends to use progressive assimilation. Some consonants in C1C2 sequences force C2:, which varies from dialect to dialect.
Ojibwe
Word structure seems to be V?(CC?V)+(CC?)?
Consonants
| p b | t d | k ɡ | ʔ | |
| s z | ʃ ʒ | h | ||
| tʃ dʒ | ||||
| m | n | |||
| j | ɰ |
The phoneme /n/ allophonically becomes /ŋ/ immediately before the velars /k/, /g/, /ɰ/
The allowable medial consonant clusters are /mb/, /nd/, /ŋg/, /nj/, /nz/, /ns/, /nʒ/, /sk/, /ʃp/, /ʃt/ and /ʃk/, or any cluster with a second element of /ɰ/. The allowable final consonant clusters are /nd/, /ŋg/, /nj/, /ns/, /nʒ/ and /ʃk/. Initial consonant clusters are disallowed.
Vowels
Short
| ɪ | ||
| ə | o |
Long
| iː | ||
| eː | oː | |
| ɑː |
Long vowels may be nasalized, either phonemically or allophonically (before /nj/ where both cons are deleted, before nasal+fricative clusters with nasal deletion in most dialects -- in some dialects, nasalization allophony occurs before all fricatives), and short vowels may be allophonically nasalized. That seems like a curious set of assertions to make, but Wikipedia Is Never Wrong™.
