Phonology and Phonological Rules

Phones and Allophones and all the rules that go with them!

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^{18 consonant phonemes: [t] [ʈ] [ɖ] [k] [m] [n] [ŋ] [ɹ] [β] [ð] [ʃ] [z] [ʄ] [ɠ] [j] [ʜ] [l]}

^{4 allophones:}
^b-> ^{/p/ when #__}

^{[t]-> /d/ when _#_}

^{[ɹ]->/r/ when #__}

^{[ɹ] -> /l/ when _#V}

^{That brings the total phone count up to 21 because /p/ /d/ and /r/ are not actual phonemes in Nab̞èdjø.}

^{7 vowel phonemes: [i] [u] [ø] [ɤ] [o] [ə] [ɛ] [a]}

^{[ø] -> /i/ when preceded by nasal or retroflex consonants ([ʈ] [ɖ] [m] [n] [ŋ])}
^{All vowels are nasals when the follow those nasal or retroflex consonants.}

^{Nab̞èdjø has hard and soft vowels. The hard vowels, if they occur before a soft vowel, causes the soft vowel to be silent. When two hard vowels are together, they both maintain their respective sounds.}

^{When a soft vowel is before a hard sound, elision happens, and if there are two soft vowels together.}

^{We also have neutrals. When a neutral is in a vowel pair, it is the only voiced vowel.}

^{Vowels can either be alone, in pairs, or in groups of three. If there are three vowels together, the first two are pronounced as if the third is not there.}

^{The Hard Vowels}

^o
^ɛ
^a
^ɤ

^{The Soft Vowels}

ⁱ
^u

^{The Neutrals}

^ə
^ø

^{To simplify these rules:}

^{HS = H}
^{SH = Elision}
^{HH = HH}
^{SS = Elision}
^{NH/HN = N}
^{NS/HN = N}
^{HHH = Pronounce the first 2 H only}
^{HSH/HSS = Pronounce the 1st H only}
^{SSS/SHS/SHH = Elision of the first 2 vowels}

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