Editing Crow language (section)

===Structure===
Vowel sequences across [[morpheme]] boundaries can be quite varied, but short vowels cannot appear alone in the morpheme: V:V (long+short), V:V: (long+long) and diphthong+V (short). Word finally, only ''a'' (in a diphthong), ''o'', and ''u'' (allomorphs of the plural suffix) can occur after a long vowel.

A wide variety of [[consonant cluster]]s can occur in Crow. All consonants except for /h/ can be [[gemination|geminated]]. Voiced labials and dentals (phonemic ''m'' and ''n'', allophones ''b'', ''m'', ''w'' and ''d'', ''n'', ''l'') are resistant to clustering. Because they only occur intervocalically, ''l'' and ''w'' do not occur in clusters. The plosive [[allophone]]s ''b'' and ''d'' only occur in clusters as the second consonant and only at morpheme boundaries. The nasal allophones ''m'' and ''n'' can only occur with each other with the exception of ''nm'', or occur with ''h'' at a morpheme boundary. Clusters in general occur at morphemic boundaries.

Some morphemic constraints:
*A word begins either with a V (long or short) or a single C; no word-initial consonant clusters
*Consonant clusters only occur word-internally; exception: ''sht'' as a single morpheme is an emphatic sentence-final declarative marker.
*A word can end in any C except for ''p'' and ''x''; ''ch'' only occurs in one word (''iach'') as a plural demonstrative
*All lexical nouns and verb stems end in a vowel
*Generally, nonderived noun and verb stems consist of between 1-4 syllables.
*Only V: or diphthongs occur in one-syllable word