Krudic

=Phonology= In many ways, the grammar of Krudic is unusual, particularly by European standards. The high number of contrastive retroflex consonants and the complete lack of bilabials means that there are gaps in even basic European phonology.


 * 1. Krudic only has one phonemic nasal /n/, however this can assimilate into many differing allophonic nasal sounds depending on the consonant it is preceding.
 * before /f/ and /v/ is becomes [ɱ]
 * before /t/, /d/, /s/, /z/, /ts/, /dz/, /l/ and /r/ and before vowels and intervocalically it remains as the pure phoneme /n/.
 * before /ʈ/, /ɖ/, /ʂ/ and /ʐ/ it becomes [ɳ]
 * before /ç/, /ʝ/ and /j/ it becomes [ɲ]
 * before /k/, /g/, /x/ and /ɣ/ it becomes [ŋ] - familiar to most English speakers
 * before /χ/ and /ʁ/ it becomes [ɴ].
 * 2. Word initially, the retroflex stops /ʈ/ and /ɖ/ can become affricised to [ʈʂ] and [ɖʐ] respectively.

=Orthography= The Krudic orthography is complex, but allows for almost one-to-one correspondance between sounds and glyphs. The alphabet consists of 39 letters, including several digraphs and letters with diacritics. Digraphs and letters with diacritics are treated as seperate letters and collated seperately in alphabetical order from their component characters.

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