#language ## Sounds ⁊ Letters ### Phonology and phonotactics Mosici has the following phonemes: | | Labials | Coronals | Palatals | Dorsals | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Nasals** | m | n | | | | **Stops** | p | t | | k | | **Fricatives** | f v | s z | ɕ ʑ | ʀ | | **Approximants** | w | | j | ʟ | | | Front | Back | | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Close** | i y | u | | **Close-Mid** | e ø | o | | **Open-Mid** | ɛ | ɔ | | **Open** | a | | Vowels can also all be long, nasalised, or both. There are also the following allophony rules: - Plosives are realised as voiced next to voiced fricatives and approximants. - Plosives are realised as non-sibilant fricatives at the end of words - For the dorsal plosive and approximant: - They are realised as palata before /i y e j/ or their long and/or nasalised variants - They are realised as uvular before /u o w/ or their long and/or nasalised variants - They are realised as palatal after /i e j/ or their long and/or nasalised variants - Otherwise they are realised as velar - The dorsal approximant /ʟ/ is realised as [ʉ] in coda position - The dorsal approximant /ʀ/ is realised as [ɐ̯] in coda position - The dorsal fricative /ʀ/ is realised as [ʁ] after consonants