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This chapter explains the basic sound units, the phonemes, of Ouxu, and their basic combinations, the syllables. For pronunciation of word stress, see Stress.
Examples are from American English except where noted.
A syllable in Ouxu in general has the form CVC. The vowel is required, but the initial and final consonants are both optional. Thus the possible forms are V, CV, VC, and CVC.
By leaving out consonants, any number of vowels can appear in a row in a word. The language is deliberately vowel-heavy. A sequence of two consonants can appear only in the middle of a word, never at the beginning or end. Because the consonants belong to different syllables, they should never be difficult to pronounce.