Coastal Eastern Ktarh

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Name: Coastal Eastern Ktarh Type: Synthetic, Agglutinative Alignment: Transitive-Accusative Head Direction: Initial Number of genders: 3 Declensions: Yes Conjugations: Yes Nouns declined according to Case Number Definitiveness Gender Verbs conjugated according to Voice Mood Person Number Tense Aspect

General

This article describes the traditional coastal eastern variety of Kti. In recent times, the dialect has been watered down severely, resulting in more adherence to standard peninsular Tanarh Kti.
Coastal Eastern Ktarh is a rather conservative dialect, defined by its maintenance of the proto-Ktarh system of /*r *l *ʂ/, reflected as /r n ʂ/ unlike standard Ktarh which had shifted them to /ʃ r ʃ/, or the basilectic Tanarh shift to /r/ without distinction.

Coastal Eastern Ktarh is spoken along most of the Kæ'nari coastline, as most speakers of the dialect had fled the peninsula after the third Dnarh war.

Phonology

Vowels

There are eight cardinal vowels (A E U Y I O Ø Æ) each representing one cardinal phonemic value of /ɑ ɛ u y i ɔ œ æ/ and each having two lengths that have minimal pairs and allophonic variants depending on position.

		Position
		Front		Back
Height	High	i (i)	i: (ī)	u (u)	u: (ū)
		y (y)	y: (ȳ)
	Mid	ɛ (e)	ɛ: (ē)	ɔ (o)	ɔ: (ō)
		œ (ø)	œ: (ø̄)
	Low	æ (æ)	æ: (ǣ)	ɑ (a)	ɑ: (ā)

Consonants

There are 14 cardinal consonants (Š, S, Z, Ž, K, T, D, Ð, H, M, N, Ŋ, R, ' ). They are distributed unevenly along five points of articulation, labial, alveolar, retroflex, velar and glottal.

	Consonants
	Labial	Alveolar		Retroflex		Velar	Glottal
	Voiced	Voiced	Unvoiced	Voiced	Unvoiced	Unvoiced	Unvoiced
Plosive		t  (t)	d  (d)			k  (k)	ʔ  ( ' )
Fricative		s (s)	z (z) ð (ð)	ʂ (š)	ʐ (ž)	x (h)
Nasal	m  (m)	n  (n)				ŋ  (ŋ)
Trill		r (r)