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Note: for the " | Note: for the "tonal" obstruents, refer to the section on Tone. | ||
As seen in this presentation of the table, the phoneme /ʍ/ in fact patterns as the voiceless counterpart to /m/, and /q/ patterns as the dorsal affricate. Another notable feature is that the consonants of Caerimoscnë's coronal series come in pairs of alveolar versus palatalized, which plays a part in certain morphological processes in the language. The palatalized equivalent for the approximants, /ɾʲ/ and /lʲ/, have merged with the clusters /ɾj/ and /lj/, though the distinction is still maintained for other consonants of the coronal series. | As seen in this presentation of the table, the phoneme /ʍ/ in fact patterns as the voiceless counterpart to /m/, and /q/ patterns as the dorsal affricate. Another notable feature is that the consonants of Caerimoscnë's coronal series come in pairs of alveolar versus palatalized, which plays a part in certain morphological processes in the language. The palatalized equivalent for the approximants, /ɾʲ/ and /lʲ/, have merged with the clusters /ɾj/ and /lj/, though the distinction is still maintained for other consonants of the coronal series. | ||
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Caerimoscnë is a tonal language, distinguishing two tones, a lower and a higher tone, where the lower can be analyzed rather as a default tone, or as the absence of tone, due to being much more common, and because it can be overridden by a high tone in certain grammatical contexts. | Caerimoscnë is a tonal language, distinguishing two tones, a lower and a higher tone, where the lower can be analyzed rather as a default tone, or as the absence of tone, due to being much more common, and because it can be overridden by a high tone in certain grammatical contexts. | ||
A vowel (or syllabic resonant) directly preceding a | A vowel (or syllabic resonant) directly preceding a tonal consonant phoneme receives a high tone. The tonal consonants are pronounced identically to their non-tonal equivalents in all contexts, and the use of voiced consonant symbols to represent them in phonemic transcription is merely a convention. Vowels can also carry a high tone themselves, irrespective of following consonants, which occurs less frequently than consonant induced tone, and is most commonly seen in certain grammatical markers. This innate tone also behaves differently than consonant induced tone, being that two consecutive syllables cannot both carry it; consonant induced tone has no such restriction. | ||
== Grammar == | == Grammar == | ||