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#language
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## Sounds ⁊ Letters
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### Phonology and phonotactics
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Mosici has the following phonemes:
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| | Labials | Coronals | Palatals | Dorsals |
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| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| **Nasals** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">m</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">n</span> | | |
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| **Stops** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">p</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">t</span> | | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">k</span> |
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| **Fricatives** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">f v</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">s z</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">ɕ ʑ</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">ʀ</span> |
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| **Approximants** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">w</span> | | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">j</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">ʟ</span> |
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| **Close** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">i y</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">u</span> |
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| **Close-Mid** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">e ø</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">o</span> |
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| **Open-Mid** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">ɛ</span> | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">ɔ</span> |
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| **Open** | <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">a</span> | |
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Vowels can also all be long, nasalised, or both.
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There are also the following allophony rules:
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- Plosives are realised as voiced next to voiced fricatives and approximants.
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- Plosives are realised as non-sibilant fricatives at the end of words
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- For the dorsal plosive and approximant:
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- They are realised as palata before <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">/i y e j/</span> or their long and/or nasalised variants
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- They are realised as uvular before /u o w/ or their long and/or nasalised variants
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- They are realised as palatal after /i e j/ or their long and/or nasalised variants
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- Otherwise they are realised as velar
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- The dorsal approximant <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">/ʟ/</span> is realised as <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">[ʉ]</span> in coda position
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- The dorsal approximant <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">/ʀ/</span> is realised as <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">[ɐ̯]</span> in coda position
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- The dorsal fricative <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">/ʀ/</span> is realised as <span style="font-family: Junicode; font-size: 1.1em">[ʁ]</span> after consonants
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