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This is the documentation for [[Module:Auphen/YAR-AI]], the sound data for [[Middle Airananwe language|Middle Airananwe]] (registry code <code>YAR-AI</code>) on the Yezur wiki. It contains no code: it returns a table of sound categories and rules which [[Module:Auphen/frame]] loads and hands to the engine, [[Module:Auphen]]. It is reached through <code><nowiki>{{auphen|word|YAR-AI}}</nowiki></code>, which returns an estimated pronunciation between slashes. The dictionary's practice for the language is set out at [[Dictionary:About Middle Airananwe]].

== Fields ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Field !! Purpose
|-
| <code>ipacats</code> || The sound categories the rules refer to, written in sounds rather than letters. <code>[V]</code> and <code>[C]</code>, the vowels and the consonants, are used as environments; <code>[D]</code> the voiced obstruents and <code>[T]</code> their voiceless counterparts are the target and the change of the final-devoicing rule, mapped member for member in the order declared (<code>b d g v z ð ɣ ʑ ɟ</code> against <code>p t k f s θ x ɕ c</code>). <code>[V]</code> and <code>[C]</code> also list sounds the rules themselves produce, such as the laxed vowels and [ʀ], so that later rules still see them.
|-
| <code>ipa_rules</code> || The letter-to-sound mapping, applied left to right before the ruleset runs. The digraphs are listed first, and the engine takes the longest spelling that fits at each position, so a digraph is read before its component letters.
|-
| <code>pronounce</code> || The pronunciation ruleset, run in the order written over the output of <code>ipa_rules</code>.
|-
| <code>sets</code> || Named rulesets for grammar forms. Empty for this language; see below.
|}

== Orthography ==

The mapping covers the letters ''a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v x y z''. Most carry their own value; the rest, with the digraphs, are:

{| class="wikitable"
! Spelling !! Sound
|-
| <code>aa ee ii oo uu</code> || the long vowels /aː eː iː oː uː/, carried through the mapping as ''ā ē ī ō ū'' and given their length mark by <code>pronounce</code>
|-
| <code>mb nd ng</code> || /ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg/
|-
| <code>bh gh ph th dh</code> || /β ɣ p͡ɸ θ ð/
|-
| <code>c ch</code> || /ʦ ʧ/
|-
| <code>ty dy ny ly sy zy ky gy</code> || /tʲ dʲ ɲ ʎ ɕ ʑ c ɟ/
|-
| <code>q gu</code> || /kʷ gʷ/
|-
| <code>x y</code> || /kʃ j/
|}

There are no rules for ''sh'' or ''j'': they are not part of the orthography, their work being done by ''sy'' and ''zy'', and the language accordingly has no /ʃ/ or /ʒ/. Outside the eight digraphs of the palatal series, ⟨y⟩ is left as the glide /j/ — ''vyala'' gives /vjala/. Because the longest spelling wins at each position, ⟨gu⟩ is taken before ⟨uu⟩ in ''guu'', which leaves a bare ⟨u⟩ for <code>pronounce</code> to lengthen.

== Pronunciation ==

<code>pronounce</code> supplies the allophony. The coronals ''t d s z n l'' palatalise before ''i'', short or long; ''n'' is [ŋ] before a velar; ''r'' is [ʀ] word-initially and [ɾ] between vowels, where ''h'' is likewise [ɦ]; the short vowels lax to [ɛ ɔ ɪ ʊ ä] before two consonants or before a word-final one, a prenasalised stop counting as a single consonant, so that ''embaa'' keeps its [e]; and ''e'' weakens to [ə] after a vowel and word-finally. A voiced obstruent is then made voiceless word-finally, which reaches the stop of a final prenasalised cluster as well (''kamb'' gives /käᵐp/). The last rules write the long vowels with the length mark, lengthen a /u/ left standing after /gʷ/, and give /gʷ/ a following /u/ before a consonant and at the end of a word. Stress is fixed on the penultimate syllable and is neither written nor marked in the output.

[ŋ] is not itself a member of <code>[C]</code>, so a short vowel before ⟨nk⟩, ⟨nq⟩ or ⟨nx⟩ is not laxed: ''senta'' gives /sɛnta/ but ''senka'' gives /seŋka/.

{| class="wikitable"
! Spelling !! Output !! Shows
|-
| ''sido'' || /ɕido/ || a coronal palatalised before ''i''
|-
| ''zyerta'' || /ʑɛrta/ || a short vowel laxed in a closed syllable
|-
| ''arahe'' || /aɾaɦə/ || intervocalic ''r'' and ''h''; final ''e''
|-
| ''maged'' || /magɛt/ || final devoicing, the spelling keeping the voiced stem
|-
| ''gulda'' || /gʷulda/ || ⟨gu⟩ before a consonant
|-
| ''guu'' || /gʷuː/ || ⟨gu⟩ taken first, the leftover ⟨u⟩ lengthened
|-
| ''hayraanye'' || /häjraːɲə/ || the native name of the language
|}

== Rulesets ==

<code>sets</code> is empty, so <code><nowiki>{{auphen|word|YAR-AI|ruleset}}</nowiki></code> reports an unknown ruleset for any name given and files the page in [[:Category:Auphen errors]]. The language's single noun declension is built instead by [[Module:MiddleAirananwe]] through [[Template:YAR-AI-decl]], which assembles the forms from the spelling rather than deriving them with the engine.

Editing this page changes every estimated pronunciation in the language; the entries that call {{tl|auphen}} serve the old output from the parser cache until they are purged. The engine's own behaviour, and where it diverges from the notation it ports, is logged at [[Module talk:Auphen]].

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