The allowed vowels for V are: a, o, u, ay, ee, and i.Exception: The consonant cluster ll is forbidden.The allowed consonants for C 2 are: r, l, or nothing.The allowed consonants for C 1 are: b, d, st, sh, s, t, th, ch, l, f, g, k, p, and j.C 1 is mandatory, and can be one of many consonants C 2 is an optional approximant, which can be either r or l and V is a vowel. Therefore, the following structures are allowed:Įvery primary syllable is of the syllable structure C 1(C 2)V. Words must begin with a primary syllable, end with a final syllable, the penultimate syllable must be a primary syllable, and all others must be secondary syllables. Every word is composed of one or two primary syllables, zero to two secondary syllables, and one final syllable. Kobold has three kinds of syllables, primary, secondary, and final.
*The phoneme represented by n likely has the allophone before g and k. The Kobold language has 16 distinguishable consonant phonemes, forming the phonological consonant inventory:
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The letters Q, V, W, X, and Z of the ISO basic Latin alphabet do not occur in the Kobold alphabet.īased on a sample of 120 kobold names, the approximate letter frequencies can be established:
The letter y only appears in the digraph ay.The letter n only appears in the digraphs ng, nk, and in, and the trigraph rsn.The letter h only appears in the digraphs sh, th, and ch.Of these 21 letters, six (A, E, I, O, U, and Y) represent vowels, while the other fifteen represent consonants. Minuscule forms (also called lowercase or small letters) Majuscule forms (also called uppercase or capital letters)
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