Oikan language: Difference between revisions
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* when an oral sonorant clusters with a nasal sonorant within the same syllable in a coda, the oral sonorant must come first | * when an oral sonorant clusters with a nasal sonorant within the same syllable in a coda, the oral sonorant must come first | ||
* hiatuses involving /i, iu̯, u, ui̯/ cannot occur, except in loanwords | * hiatuses involving /i, iu̯, u, ui̯/ cannot occur, except in loanwords | ||
=== Kelhria and Gledia === | |||
All dialects of Oikan have a distinction between ''kelhre'' speech (kelhria) and glede speech (gledia). Kelhria is careful, enunciated speech. Gledia is “natural”, “lazy” speech. Certain phonological simplifications and allophonic processes only occur in gledia. | |||
=== Other Phonological Details === | === Other Phonological Details === | ||