Chlouvānem/Phonology: Difference between revisions

: ''mailtvaha'' {{IPA|/maɪ̯ɴ̆tʋäɦä/}} "waters", stem ''mailtvą~mailtvah-'', ergative case ''mailtvahei'' {{IPA|/maɪ̯ɴ̆tʋäɦeɪ̯/}}, exessive case ''mailtvąt'' {{IPA|/maɪ̯ɴ̆tʋɑ̤t/}}

When word-final (an occurrence which is limited to borrowed proper nouns, the accusatives of dual pronouns, the dative of cardinal numerals, and some Eastern toponyms), it is realized as [oː] virtually everywhere:

: ''emibå'' "one" (<small>DAT.</small>) {{IPA|/emibɔ/}} – Std., Līl., Cam., Hln. {{IPA|[emiboː]}}

: ''ilo'' "us two" {{IPA|/iɴ̆ɔ/}} – Std., Līl., Cam., Hln. {{IPA|[iɴ̆oː]}}

: ''lilvan'' "sash, belt" {{IPA|/ɴ̆iɴ̆ʋän/}} {{IPA|[ɴ̆iɴ̆ʋɑ̃]}}

: ''hulin'' "woman" {{IPA|/ɦuɴ̆in/}} {{IPA|[ɦuɴ̆ĩŋ]}}

* ''dehāṃlūdvūkas'' – palatal consonant

: ''ṭūmma'' "eparchy" {{IPA|/ʈuːmmä/}} – Std., Hiy., Cam. {{IPA|[ʈuːmmä]}}, Līl. {{IPA|[ʈuːmmɐ]}}

: ''dehām'' "mouth" {{IPA|/deɦäːm/}} – Std., Līl., Hiy., Cam. {{IPA|[deɦãːm]}}

: ''naviṣya'' "book" {{IPA|/näʋiʂjä/}} – Std., Cam. {{IPA|[näʋiʂjä]}}, Līl., Lṭh. {{IPA|[nɐʋiʂːɐ]}}

{{IPA|/ɦ/}} following one of {{IPA|/ɴ̆ ʀ/}} may be realized as {{IPA|[ɦ]}}, {{IPA|[x]}}, or aspiration depending on the area. The {{IPA|/ʀɦ/}} cluster is realized as {{IPA|[ʀɦ]}} nearly everywhere and as {{IPA|[ʀx]}} only in parts of the Southern Far East (mainly along the coast from Līlikanāna to Ehaliħombu); {{IPA|[ʀʱ]}} is found almost exclusively around Līṭhalyinām. For the {{IPA|/ɴ̆ɦ/}} cluster, however, the aspirated realization {{IPA|[ɴ̆ʱ]}} is much more common, extending all along the coast south to Lūlunimarta and north to Līlta, and inland to Lūkṣṇyaḍāra, therefore including virtually all of the Jade Coast. A realization closer to {{IPA|[ɴ̆x~ɴ̆χ]}} is however the norm in most of the Chlouvānem-speaking world.

{{IPA|/ʋ/}} has a number of different allophones - {{IPA|[ʋ v w ʊ̯ f ɸ β]}} being the most common ones - whose presence varies regionally; in some pronunciations, the {{IPA|[ʋ]}} allophone is not even present. In Standard Chlouvānem, it is {{IPA|[ʋ]}} all the time except when in an onset and preceding {{IPA|/ʀ/}} (the only consonant it can e followed by), where it is realized as {{IPA|[v]}}. This contextual allophone is present in virtually every pronunciation, except for Southern ones, where it is realized in this context as {{IPA|[w]}}, often followed by an extra-short {{IPA|[ŭ]}} vowel, except Kælšamīṇṭa and neighboring areas, where the beginning {{IPA|/ʋʀ/}} cluster is realized as {{IPA|[ɻ]}}. In the onset, most of the Chlouvānem-speaking world has the same pattern as the Standard, but the Near and Far East use the {{IPA|[v]}} allophone when preceded by a consonant in the same syllable; the inland Jade Coast (but only sporadically in Līlasuṃghāṇa, where it is typical of young people), meanwhile, uses the {{IPA|[w]}} allophone when intervocalic. The {{IPA|[ʋ]}} allophone is absent in the parts of the Southern Far East (including, notably, Līlekhaitē), which use {{IPA|[v]}} when adjacent to a consonant and {{IPA|[w]}} otherwise. Coda {{IPA|/ʋ/}} is realized differently across the Chlouvānem world: while it is, for most people, an approximant, as in the Standard, in the Jade Coast and parts of the lower Plain (but not the Nīmbaṇḍhāra delta) it forms a diphthong with the preceding vowel, meaning that the {{IPA|/äʋ/}} sequence merges with {{IPA|/äʊ̯/}}. In the Far East, it is realized as a fricative agreeing in voicing with the following consonant, and also in PoA if it is labial.<br/>The {{IPA|/aɪ̯ʋ/}} sequence, before another consonant, is commonly realized as {{IPA|[aju]}} in those pronunciations where {{IPA|/ʋ/}} is not fricativized in codas.<br/>{{IPA|/j/}}, meanwhile, is consistently realized as {{IPA|[j]}} in the whole Chlouvānem-speaking world.

: ''leiktas'' "surprise" {{IPA|[ɴ̆e˥ɪ̯˦ktä˧s]}}

Furthermore, the clusters ''mp- mph- nt- nth- lk- lkh-'' are found in some Eastern Dabuke words, especially regionally widespread in the Western parts of the Inquisition.