Sapirini

Alphabet
Sapirini has pitch accent which can be marked by the acute accent on all of the vowels: á, é, í, ó, ú and it is marked on the diphthongs by a circumflex: â, ô. The accent usually falls on the penultimate syallble, it is only marked with a diacritic when it is not.



Phonotactics
Syllable shape is (C)(C)V(C)(C)

"V" is any vowel, dipthong, or the letters /r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /y/, or /w//

/r/, /l/, /m/, /n/, /y/, and /w/ act as consonants when next to a vowel.

Noun Morphology
Nouns decline by number and case. Number marking follows case marking.

Number
Nouns have three numbers: singular, dual, and plural. The letter /e/ is used if the noun ends in a consonant.

Case
Nouns are marked by the dative, lative,locative, superessive, inessive, apudessive, genitive, and instrumental cases. .