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Revision as of 14:52, 6 April 2007
Eruvite is one of the primary spoken languages of Eluvatar.
Phonology
Consonants
| bilabial | labio- dental |
dental | alveolar | velar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | |||
| plosive | p b | t d | k g | ||
| fricative | f v | θ | s | x | |
| trill | r | ||||
| 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.
