Basic Sounds of Inuktitut

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Rule 1: Presentation of the Inuktitut vowels and consonants

Sequences of Consonants

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Rule 3: No more than two consonants can appear in a row.

Consonant Groups Within a Word

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Rule 5: No group of two consonants can follow another group of two consonants in the same word.

Reduction of Vowel and Consonant Groups

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Rule 15: Processes occurring when two vowels or two consonants appear in a row.

Special Deletion of a Consonant

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Rule 16: What to do when an additive noun beginning with a consonant plus a vowel is added to a base or post base ending with two vowels plus a consonant or taq/juaq.

Rule of Double Consonants

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Rule 17: When building a word, after all other rules have applied, if a group of two consonants is followed by another group of two consonants, the first consonant of the second group is deleted.
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