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Revision as of 12:29, 6 April 2007
Eruvite is one of the primary spoken languages of Eluvatar.
Phonology
Consonants
| bilabial | labio- dental |
dental | alveolar | velar | labio- velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | ||||
| plosive | p b | d | g | |||
| fricative | f v | θ | s | x | ||
| trill | r | |||||
| approximant | w | |||||
| lateral approximant | l |
| labial-velar | |
|---|---|
| approximant | [ w] |
Eruvite lacks any consonant clusters within the same syllable except for /nd/, which appears as a syllable coda. Syllables may begin with any of the language's consonant sounds with the exception of /θ/, which may only appear as a syllable coda. Syllable codas in addition to /θ/ are limited to /s/, /m/, /n/, /l/, /r/ and /nd/.
Vowels
| front | back | |
|---|---|---|
| close | [ i] | [ ɯ] |
| mid | [ ɛ] | |
| open | [ ɑ] ɒ |
Grammar
Eruvite is infamous for the complex system of inflection it employs.
