- in pitch.[citation needed] CVCV, VCV, with both
vowels short: áhi, káhi
CVCVCV, CVVCV, VCVCV, VVCV—that is, as in (1) but
preceded by a
short syllable:...
-
consonants but
cannot be a click, CVCVN, CVVCV, CVNCV, CVVCVN, CVNCVN,
CVcVCV, CVVCVcV.
Grammatical words tend to be CV or V.
There are
occasional exceptions...
-
often loans from Gǀui), with two tone-bearing units. (Only 1% of
words are
CVCVCV, CVVCV, CVVVCV, and
other complex patterns.) The N may only be /m/ in native...
-
nominal prefixes and the like) are of the
forms CV, CVV, CVCV, CVVCV, and
CVCVCV. In the
latter case, the
middle vowel is neutralized.
There are only six...
-
three or more syllables), and more
closely follow the CV (consonant-vowel,
CVCVCV)
pattern of Old ****anese. By contrast,
kango are
often one or two syllables...
- (Williamson 2000, etc.). However,
Roger Blench (2016)
proposes a
trisyllabic (
CVCVCV)
syllabic structure for Proto-Niger–Congo roots,
while Konstantin Pozdniakov...
- 'child' CVCV sala 'wrong'
CVCVC sabaʼ 'reason'
CVCCVC leʼbaʼ 'already'
CVCVCV binánga 'river'
CVCVCVC pásaraʼ 'market'
CVCVCCV kalúppa 'forget' CVCCVCVC...
-
segmentation awareness earlier,
possibly due to its open
syllable structure (CVCV,
CVCVCV, etc.).
Rigidity in
Italian (shallow
orthography and open
syllable structure)...
-
diphthong (e.g. *täi "louse", *käü-däk "to walk");
roots with
three syllables:
CVCVCV (e.g. *petägä "pine"; *vasara "hammer") or
CVCCVCV (e.g. *kattila "kettle");...
-
CVVCVCVV (rare). The
following word
shapes do not have
contrastive tone:
CVCVCV, CVCVVCV, CVCVCVV, and
words of 4 or more syllables.
Ekari at Ethnologue...
