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## Phonotactics
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I plan to have two main kinds of words in L'ewa. I plan to have content and
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particle words. The content words will refer to things, properties, or actions
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(such as `tool`, `red`, `run`) and the particle words will change how the
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grammar of a sentence works (such as `the` or prepositions).
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The main kind of content word is a root word, and they will be in the following
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forms:
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- CVCCV (/ʒa.sko/)
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- CCVCV (/lʔ.ɛwa/)
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Particles will mostly fall into the following forms:
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- V (/a/)
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- VV (/ai/)
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- CV (/ba/)
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- CVV (/bai/)
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Proper names _should_ end with consonants, but there is no hard requirement.
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L'ewa is a stressed language, with stress on the second-to-last (penultimate)
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syllable. For example, the word "zasko" would be pronounced "ZAsko".
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Syllables end on stop consonants if one is present in a consonant cluster. Two
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stop consonants cannot follow eachother in a row.
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