Chart VI :

Final two consonant clusters


Second member
 

  SP AC PC NL NR TL SV
SP     +        
AC              
FC +   +        
NL +   +        
LR              
TL +            
SV              

 

1.6. Syllabic structure
1.6.1. Syllable
      A word may consist of one or more syllables. A syllable is characterized as a sequence of phonemes with one peak of sonority. In each syllable, the vowel has the peak of sonority. A vowel may be preceded or followed by one or more consonants. A single consonant between two vowels is called onset when it goes with the second vowel. When there are two consonants between two vowels, the consonant whiich goes with the first vowel is coda. The syllable is open when the vowel is the final segment and it is closed/checked when the final segment is consonant/semivowel.
     The following is the syllabic pattern in Puri. There are words consisting of one to six syllables. However words with two and three syllables are more common.
1.6.2.
Monosyllabic words
      Monosyllabic words may be either open or close. In Purki, monosyllabic words which are open with vowels are not found (except e ‘that’). All the monosyliabic open words are found with one or more consonants preceding the vowel.
Open
cv po ‘part’
CCV  kru  ‘corner’
CCCV stro ‘strong’
Close
VC ot  ‘light’
C o:t ‘vote’
CVC par ‘claymould’    
C to:p  ‘cannon’
CCVC phrin ‘message’
CCC ste: ‘stage’
CCVCC spaqs ‘boiled vegetables’
CCCVC sprin ‘cloud’
CVCC tahs ‘throne’
CCC ba:s ‘bamboo’

1.6.3.

Disyllabic words
Open
CVV phia ‘for’
VCV api ‘grandmother’
CCVV hloa ‘lung’
VCCV ukpa ‘owl’
CVCV polo ‘ball’
 

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