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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Xavier McShane</b>
on <!--date-->14:50 2/2/02
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The Xurnese language looks very interesting. Could you
please give us some hints about its pronounciation?
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Sure! Here's the phonology:</i>
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<tr><td> <td colspan=4>Consonants <td> <td colspan="3">Vowels
<tr><td> <td>labial <td>alveolar <td>palatal <td>velar <td>
<td>front <td>central <td>back
<tr><td>stops <td><b>p (b)</b> <td><b>t d</b> <td> <td><b>k g</b> <td> <td><b>i</b> <td> <td><b>u</b>
<tr><td>affricates <td> <td><b>c (dz)</b> <td><b>ch j</b> <td><b>(x) </b>
<td> <td><b>e</b> <td> <td><b>o</b>
<tr><td>fricatives <td><b>v</b> <td><b>s z</b> <td><b>sh</b>
<td> <td><td> <td><b>a</b>
<tr><td>nasals <td><b>m</b> <td><b>n</b>
<tr><td>laterals <td><td><b>l</b> <td><b>r</b>
<tr><td>semivowels <td><b>w</b> <td> <td><b>y</b>
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<b>c</b> represents [ts]; voiced [dz] may also be phonemic
<br><b>ch sh j</b> are as in English
<br><b>x</b> beginning a word is [z], elsewhere [ks]
<br><b>b/v</b> are allophones of a single phoneme, [v] intervocalicallay, [b] elsewhere
<br><b>e o</b> are closed (as in <i>say, so</i>) except in diphthongs, where they're open (<i>set, caught</i>).
<br>Stress the final syllable if it ends in a consonant, otherwise in a vowel.
<p>Thus: <b>Cu peicurey jic otos shevarirp o zidzi</b> "The editor is hated by his writers" is pronounced <i>tsu pey-tsu-REY jits o-TOS she-va-RIRP o ZI-dzi</i>.
<p>(Note: There is a good deal of dialect variation; and of course ancient Axunashin had its own rules.)
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