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Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes

Conlangery Podcast

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The Difference Between Complex and Simple Syllable Structures

Simple syllable is the most common one in the world. It involves mostly open syllables, but you have either a complex onset possible so constant one consonant two vowel With the second consonant being a glide like wa or yah or resident like rah or la. Chinese allows the the Crazy under specified M is a coda sort of yeah and it has complex on sets Okay Right when I say complex onset that means an onset of the syllable with more than one concert Then we get to the moderate syllable complexity and this is likely to involve mostly open syllabled. That's likely to involve Mostly open syllables,. But you can have multiple constants in the onset and coda.

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