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I - Phonology and Orthography

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Alveolo-Palatal	Palatal	Velar	Laryngeal
Nasal	m	n		ɲ	gn
Stop	p pj b	t tj		c	k
Fricative		s z	sh	ç		h
Affricate			cs cz
Lateral		l lh	lj

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lect
lh -> l and c -> k.

pj -> b and tj -> cz.

Terminal s -> sh.

H is different.

• ll becomes l
• j becomes dzhj
• terminal s becomes sh

• nasals
• final clust sy is sx-s

Nasal Sandhi
All nasals readily change according to a preceding stop, within or without the word.

• p -> m
• t -> n
• c -> cn
• k - > gn

	Front	Fem.	Back
Tense open	i y		u
Lax open	ɪ ʏ	ʉ ʌʊ	oʊ
Mid	e ey
Close		a ɶ	a o

Changes before this point
1. [j] drop
2. strong nasal assimilation
3. Palatalized velar stop -> palatal stop
4. lh - lj split
5. Ejectives -> Palatalized stops

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Numbers

___ uses a non-positional binary system.

hyta konan palha cy question word

ata kechu hanu pjoro tandam

1. ata
2. kecsu
3. ata kecsu or dan kecsu
4. hanu
5. ata hanu or ata tjan
6. kecsu hanu
7. ata kecsu hanu or tjan hanu
8. pjopo
9. ata pjopo
10. kecsu pjopo
11. ata kecsu pjopo
12. hanu pjopo
13. ata hanu pjopo
14. kecsu hanu pjopo
15. ata kecsu hanu pjopo or tjan pjopo
16. tandam
17. ata tandam
18. kecsu tandam
19. ata kecsu tandam
20. hanu tandam
21. ata hanu tandam
22. ata kecsu hanu tandam
23. pjopo tandam
24. ata pjopo tandam
25. kecsu pjopo tandam
26. ata kecsu pjopo tandam
27. hanu pjopo tandam
28. ata hanu pjopo tandam
29. kecsu hanu pjopo tandam
30. ata kecsu hanu pojo tandam or decash tandam or ata decash