Chlouvānem/Phonology: Difference between revisions

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

* ''dehāṃlūdvūkas'' – palatal consonant

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

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

{{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.

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.