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 ===