Verse:Schngellstein/Padmanábha

Old Schngellstein/Padmanábha

Padmanábha /'pæð.n̩.'niə.b̥e/ 'commoners' language as opposed to Camalanàbha' or Padmapradhána /...pʁɑ̈.'tʰiə.n̩/ is a Camalic language spoken in Irta's Morocco. It has borrowed from Camalanàbha during the Old Padmanábha stage.

The motivation for Padmanábha is "Irish orthography read as a Khmer/Danish hybrid". The name Padmanábha is inspired by the Sanskrit word padma meaning lotus.

Its orthography is the same as in Old Padmanábha, but it underwent Khmerization from Old Padmanábha voiced and breathy voiced stops. Old Padmanábha r also became uvular and vocalized. This has resulted in modern Padmanábha having approximately as many vowels as Danish. It's also a tonal/register language like Danish.

Stops should be Danish-like

Diachronics

Old PN vowels: a e i o u á é í ó ú ai ao ae aoi aei ia ua iai uai éi ei ái aí eo ea éa eoi eao eá eái iu iú iúi oí oi ói uí ui úi

a > /æ, E/
á > /A, uə/
éa > /E:, iə/
éi > /e:, Ij/

Phonology

The 26 vowel phonemes of Standard Danish (14 short and 12 long) correspond to 21 morphophonemes (11 short and 10 long).

Vowel phonemes

	Front				Central		Back
	unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː	y	yː			u	uː
Close-mid	e̝	e̝ː	ø	øː	ə		o	oː
Open-mid	e	eː	œ	œː	ɐ		ɔ̝	ɔ̝ː
Open	æ	ɛː			ɑ̈	ɑ̈ː	ɒ	ɒː

Morphophoneme–phoneme–phone correspondenceTemplate:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp

Morpho- phoneme	Tautosyllabic environment		Phoneme	Phone	Narrow tran- scription	Example	Note
	After	Before
|i|			/i/	[i]	[i]	mis
|iː|			/iː/	[iː]	[iː]	mile
|e|			/e/	[e̝]	[e̝]	list
	|r|			[ɛ̝]	[ɛ̝]	brist
|eː|			/eː/	[e̝ː]	[e̝ː]	mele
	|r|		/ɛː/	[ɛ̝ː]	[ɛ̝ː~ɛ̝j]	grene
|ɛ|			/ɛ/	[e]	[e]	læst
		|r|		[ɛ]	[ɛ]	bær
	|r|	|Template:Abbr, Template:Abbr|	/ɛ/ or /ɑ/	[æ~ɑ]	[a~ɑ̈]	række	[ɑ] in innovative varieties.Template:Sfnp
			/ɑ/	[ɑ]	[ɑ̈]	kræft
|ɛː|			/ɛː/	[eː]	[eː]	mæle
		|r|		[eː~ɛː]	[eː~ɛː]	bære	[ɛː] in innovative varieties.Template:Sfnp
	|r|			[ɛ̝ː]	[ɛ̝ː~ɛ̝j]	kræse
		|d|	/aː/ or /ɑː/	[æː~ɑː]	[æː~ɑ̈ː]	græde	[ɑː] in innovative varieties.Template:Sfnp
|a|	≠ |r|	|Template:Abbr|	/a/	[æ]	[æ]	malle
			/ɑ/	[ɑ]	[ɑ̈]	takke
|ar|		|Template:Abbr|				var	Only in a handful of words.Template:Sfnp
			/ɑː/	[ɑː]	[ɑ̈ː]	arne
|aː|			/aː/	[ɛː]	[ɛː]	male
	|r|		/ɑː/	[ɑː]	[ɑ̈ː]	trane
|aːr|						har
|y|			/y/	[y]	[y]	lyt
|yː|			/yː/	[yː]	[yː]	kyle
|ø|			/ø/	[ø]	[ø]	kys
	|r|	≠ |v, j, ɡ|		[œ̝~œ]	[œ̝~œ]	grynt	[œ] in innovative varieties.
		|v|	/œ/	[ɶ]	[ɶ̝]	drøv	Template:Sfnp
		|j, ɡ|	/ɔ/	[ʌ]	[ɒ̽]	tøj
|øː|			/øː/	[øː]	[øː]	køle
	|r|			[œ̝ː~œː]	[œ̝ː~œː]	røbe	[œː] in innovative varieties.
|œ|			/œ/	[œ̝]	[œ̝]	høns
		|r|		[œ]	[œ]	gør
	|r|			[ɶ]	[ɶ̝]	grøn
|œː|			/œː/	[œ̝ː]	[œ̝ː]	høne	Rare.Template:Sfnp
		|r|		[œː]	[œː]	gøre
|u|			/u/	[u]	[u]	guld
	|r|		/u/	[u~o]	[u~o̝]	brusk	[o] in innovative varieties.Template:Sfnp
|uː|			/uː/	[uː]	[uː]	mule
	|r|		/uː/ or /oː/	[uː~oː]	[uː~o̝ː]	ruse	[oː] in innovative varieties.Template:Sfnp
|o|		|Template:Abbr, r|	/o/	[o]	[o̝]	sort ('black')
				[ɔ̝]	[ɔ̽]	ost ('cheese')
|oː|			/oː/	[oː]	[o̝ː]	mole
|ɔ|			/ɔ/	[ʌ]	[ɒ̽]	måtte
|ɔr|		|Template:Abbr|	/ɒ/	[ɒ]	[ɒ̝]	vor	Only in a handful of words.Template:Sfnp
			/ɒː/	[ɒː]	[ɒ̝ː]	morse
|ɔːr|						tårne
|ɔː|			/ɔː/	[ɔ̝ː]	[ɔ̽ː]	måle
|ə|			/ə/	[ə]	[ə]	hoppe
|ər|			/ɐ/	[ɐ]	[ɒ̽]	fatter
|rə|						ture	After long vowels.Template:Sfnp
|rər|						turer
|jə|			/jə/	[ɪ]	[ɪ]	veje	See Template:Section link.
|ɡə|						jage
|və|			/və/	[ʊ]	[ʊ]	have
|əd|			/əð/	[ð̩]	[ð̩˕˗ˠ]	måned
|də|			/ðə/			bade
|əl|			/əl/	[l̩]	[l̩]	gammel
|lə|			/lə/			tale
|nə|			/nə/	[n̩]	[n̩]	håne
|ən|			/ən/			hesten
				[m̩]	[m̩]	hoppen
				[ŋ̍]	[ŋ̍]	pakken

The three way distinction in front rounded vowels /y ø œ/ is upheld only before nasals, e.g. /syns sønˀs sœns/ synes, synds, søns ('seems', 'sin's', 'son's').

/a/ and /aː/ on the one hand and /ɑ/ and /ɑː/ on the other are largely in complementary distribution. However, a two-phoneme interpretation can be justified with reference to the unexpected vowel quality in words like andre /ˈɑndrɐ/ 'others' or anderledes /ˈɑnɐˌleːðəs/ 'different', and an increasing number of loanwords.Template:Sfnp

Some phonemes and phones that only occur in unstressed position often merge with full phonemes and phones:Template:Sfnp

• [ʊ] with [o], leading to a variable merger of /və/ and /o/ (the former can be [wə] or [wʊ] instead, in which case no merger takes place).
• /ɐ/ with /ɔ/. According to Template:Harvp, these sounds are usually merged, the main difference being the greater variability in the realizations of /ɐ/, which only occurs in unstressed position. In the narrow phonetic transcriptions of Template:Harvp and Template:Harvp, the two sounds are treated as identical.Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp

The vowel system is unstable, and according to a study by Ejstrup & Hansen (2004), the contemporary spoken language might be experiencing a merger of several of these vowels. The following vowel pairs may be merged by some speakers (only vowels not adjacent to |r| were analyzed):Template:Sfnp

• [øː] with [œ̝ː] (11 out of 18 speakers)
• [ø] with [œ̝] (7 out of 18)
• [e̝ː] with [eː] (5 out of 18)
• [e̝] with [e] (5 out of 18)
• [o] with [ɔ̝] (4 out of 18)
• [eː] with [ɛː] (3 out of 18)
• [o:] with [ɔ̝:] (2 out of 18)
• [u:] with [o:] (1 out of 18)

Lexicon

• rogalach = a filled rolled pastry, also eaten by North African Jews in Irta
• *widq-ma -> PCam *wīˀdma -> éidhme -> ėlmi (eye)