nonesuch 132: a phoneme inventory with almost 40 times as many consonants as vowels Where found Ubykh (Northwest Caucasian) Domain phonology Subdomain phoneme inventory Keywords…
nonesuch 132
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lexicon, phonology
infrequentale (family possession) 99: high and low vowels as one class as opposed to mid vowels in determining vowel harmony Where found Swahili and perhaps…
nonesuch 100
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nonesuch 100: vowel harmony in terms of vowel peripherality, rather than of backness (palatal harmony), roundness (labial harmony), or ATR (height harmony) Where found Pasiego…
rarissimum 101
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rarissimum 101: VC as (the only or preferred) syllable type, with VC0CV thus syllabified as VC0C.V rather than as VC0.CV, at least at some level…
nonesuch 102
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nonesuch 102: intervocalic consonant clusters of decreasing sonority in toto assigned to onsets of second syllables Where found Malayalam (Dravidian) Domain phonology Subdomain syllable structure…
nonesuch 103
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nonesuch 103: word-stress on every second mora, realized (as pitch accent) on vowel of the respective syllable, main on second mora, secondary on fourth, sixth,…
nonesuch 104
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nonesuch 104: secondary word-stress on odd-numbered word-final syllables, but only if the word is morphologically complex, irrespective of its morphological composition; no secondary stress in…
nonesuch 105
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nonesuch 105: stress accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody, with contrastive tone on both stressed and unstressed syllables Where found…
nonesuch 106
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nonesuch 106: pitch accent and lexical tone as independent contrasting categories of word prosody Where found Papiamentu (Iberian-based creole) Domain phonology Subdomain word-stress, tone Keywords…
nonesuch 107
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nonesuch 107: tonal patterns (initial lowering delayed by one mora, tonal alternations in inflected verb forms and in combinations of nouns with following particles) dependent…