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Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes

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The Different Sounds of Fricatives

There is an oddball issue in plenty of languages where fricatives especially siblings Pattern oddly and can occur in multiple positions. Think about how most dip thongs work in most languages as they go from lower to They go from most sonarancy to lower sonarancy so I and I are very common Oh and boy are very common But you know something like air is a bit less common but yeah might be rightYeah, yeah, oh so basically in complex syllables is There's you start with least sonarate sounds move up the scale in sonarancy until you get to the Nucleus which is going to be a vowelWhich is most sonarant Then you go backwards you become increasing

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