Krīpoti
Krīpoti (or Kripoti) is a Kripet language spoken in Krīpetēpla.
| Krīpoti | |
|---|---|
| Language family | Kripet |
| Early form(s) | Proto-Kripet
|
| Writing system | Lepeqēklih Alphabet |
| Official status | |
| Spoken in | Krīpetēpla |
| Speaker | |
| Demonym | Kripoti-speaking |
| Technical information | |
| Usage | Native Language Administrative Language |
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 | r | j | w | |||||
| 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.
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".