Hard

General information
Hard is a very hard language

Consonants
The floor tap only occurs intervocalically

All consonants except h may be aspirated, this may be marked by an h.

All consonants except palatal consonants, dental consonants, non-nasal sonorant consonants and retroflex consonants may be palatalized, this is marked by a y

All consonants except labials may be labialized

All consonants may be prenasalized)

All consonants may occur in a cluster with a glottal stop. When a glottal stop comes into contact with a stop the resulting combination is an ejective stop of the same row as the original stop, with the glottal stop disappearing.

The maximum syllable structure is (fricative)-(prenasalization)(any consonant)-(sonorant {unless preceding consonant is sonorant})(secondary articulation)(vowel {never diphthong})(Fricative or sonorant)(stop)

Vowels
All vowels may be either short or long.

There are no diphthongs.

A vowel may carry one of four tones

low tone: a, aa

high tone: á, áá

rising tone: aá (long vowels only)

falling tone: áa (long vowels only)

Class 3-r verbs
3-r verbs are all intransitive or semi-transitive and form their plural stems by nasalising the first consonant of the verb stem and prefixing a copy of the radical vowel and a click consonant from the same row as the root of the verb.