Krīpoti

Krīpoti (or Kripoti) (Krīpoti:  krīpoti /kriːˈpo.ti/ is a Kripet language spoken in Krīpetēpla.

Krīpoti 
Language family	Kripet
Early form(s)	Proto-Kripet Kripeqet
Writing system	Lepeqēklih Alphabet
Official status
Spoken in	Krīpetēpla
Speaker
Demonym	Kripoti-speaking
Technical information
Usage	Native Language Administrative Language

Name in other languages:

• Śácamþaśá: sotiporiq Qripátisá /'qripɒːtisɑː/

Phonology

Different dialects of Kripoti have slightly different phonemic inventories, with most differences being in the palatal series. The following sections all refer to the standard dialect.

Consonants

Kripoti has 31 consonants:

		Labial	Dental/Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasals		m	n		ɲ	[ŋ]	[ɴ]
Stops		p b	t d			k g	q	ʔ
Fricatives		f v	s z	ʃ [ʒ]	ç [ʝ]	x	ʁ	h
Affricates			t͡s d͡z	t͡ʃ [d͡ʒ]	c͡͡ç ɟ͡͡ʝ
Trills/Approximants		w	r		j
Laterals	Approximant		l
	Fricative		ɬ [ɮ]
	Affricate		t͡ɬ

Sounds in square brackets are allophones:

• /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/, /ç/ and /ɬ/ are voiced after voiced obstruents;
• Nasals assimilate with the following non-glide, non-glottal consonant. [ŋ] and [ɴ] are allophones of any nasal before velar and uvular consonants.

Furthermore, /z/ and /d͡z/ only contrast with their voiceless variants when they are not next to an obstruent.

Nasals are partially devoiced ([m͡m̥], [n͡n̥]) before /h/, and voiceless ([m̥], [n̥]) after /h/.

The exact pronounciation of /h/ before another consonant is debated, with some claiming it to be realized as preaspiration of the following consonant.

Consonants are never geminated.

Vowels

Kripoti has four vowels, with a fifth vowel (/u/) appearing in loanwords only. All vowels in Kripoti may be either long or short.

	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Low		a aː

Two-vowel sequences are always separate syllables, as Kripoti has no diphthongs.

Stress

Stress in Kripoti always falls on either the last or the second-to-last syllable, and it mostly follows the following rules:

• If the last syllable of a word has a long vowel, or the word is a noun in the vocative case, or the word is a sentence-final interrogative pronoun, stress falls on the last syllable;
• If the last syllable of a word has a short vowel, stress falls on the second-to-last syllable.

However, due to the fact that historical long vowels shortened next to other vowels, if the last two vowels are next to each other stress is unpredictable. Some minimal pairs are attested, especially in verbs, such as potizea~potizeá, respectively the present and the past forms of the verb "to agree".

Syllable structure

Syllables in Kripoti must follow the (C)(S)V(h)(C) structure, where C is any consonant, S is any approximant, trill and fricative except for /ʁ/, V is any vowel and h is the sound /h/. Elements in parenthesis are not required.