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Conlangs >> Romaşa >> Phonology

R o m a ş a P h o n o l o g y

As a Romance language, Romaşan phonology closely resembles the other Romance languages. Below I will give the IPA charts for consonants and vowels and describe allophones and other linguistics goodies.

Consonants:

	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stop	p b		t d		c ɟ	k g
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ ʒ
Affricative				tʃ dʒ
Tap			ɾ
Lateral			l		ʎ
Nasal	m		n		ɲ

Consonants don't show much in the way of allophonic action. [k] and [g] often become [c] and [ɟ] before front vowels (represented as /ç/ and /gh/, respectively). [n] will often palatize to [n^j] before a final [i], yielding [an^j] or ['an^ji] as the plural of ['anu] (year - years). [l] often acts similarly, going to [l^j] for final [li].

Vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close- Mid	e		o
Mid		ə
Open	a

All the vowels can be nasalized. Nasalization, in writing, is marked with a following /m/ or /n/ in the final syllable, or a following /m/ or /n/ and then another consonant in a non-final syllable. Remember that '^' marks a double vowel, so only the first one is nasalized if nasalization does occur. Unstressed [e] becomes [ə] in all positions, and is nasalized as it would be expected.

sange ['sã.ʒə] (blood)
sentu ['sẽ.tu] (hundred)
cumprêndrer [kũprəə̃'drer] (to understand)
cantan ['kã.tã] (they sing)