Qimant phonology

Consonants
Continuants can be geminated word-medially.

Phonotactics
The maximum syllable structure in Qimant is CVC, which implies that consonant clusters are only allowed word-medially. In loanwords from Amharic there may also be consonant-clusters within a syllable. Vowel clusters are not allowed.

Phonological processes
Consonant clusters with more than two consonants are broken up by inserting the epenthetic vowel. Other phonological processes are nasal assimilation and devoicing of at word boundaries.

Prosody
The prosodic features of Qimant have not been studied yet.