Tosi Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stop | p b | t d | t ʃ | d ʒ | k g | |
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Fricative | f v | s z | ʃ | ʒ | x ɣ | |
Approximate | w | j | ||||
Lateral Approximate | l | |||||
Trill | r |
Vowels
a o i u e
aː oː iː uː eː
Vowel & Consonant Structure
- CVC is the overwhelmingly most common structure
- CV is 2nd most common
- CVCV is 3rd most common
- VC is 4th most common
- VCVC is 5th most common
No initial or final consonant clusters besides b/d/g/p/t/k + r, which are only initial.
Stress Rules
2 syllables: stress is on the 2nd syllable unless the vowel in the first syllable is long. There are several exceptions: olu, elo, oki, zadax
Allophones:
e → [ɛ] / C_C
i → [ɪ] / C_C