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From that point, the Common Khad phonology is rather accurately rendered by its native script. Some prefix letters became assimilated to the root sounds. The pretonic vowels had already collapsed to a single sound by that time, even though they were still represented with different symbols. Because of this fact, texts from that period show frequent confusion and hypercorrection. For instance, the word for “road” is written as ''lados'' and ''lodos'' in the same text. Later texts show ''ledoh'' and ''ldoh'', also indicating the lenition of the final /s/ sound. | From that point, the Common Khad phonology is rather accurately rendered by its native script. Some prefix letters became assimilated to the root sounds. The pretonic vowels had already collapsed to a single sound by that time, even though they were still represented with different symbols. Because of this fact, texts from that period show frequent confusion and hypercorrection. For instance, the word for “road” is written as ''lados'' and ''lodos'' in the same text. Later texts show ''ledoh'' and ''ldoh'', also indicating the lenition of the final /s/ sound. | ||
In Central Khad, new consonant clusters, that had appeared after vowel reduction and elision, were usually simplified. For instance, the name of the Suropong Valley would be pronounced [sʷə.ɺə.ˈpoŋ] in Early Central Khad, but it became ''srpong'' [ʂɔ́ŋ] in Shanyi. The process of cluster simplification, devoicing and tonogenesis had begun in the central dialects with some later peripheral branches preserving most words intact, while other languages not allowing any clusters at all. In the Gyu (spelt ''Dguts''), all consonant clusters disappeared completely, turning into such features as vowel mutation and tone (the name of the language itself is [gʲý]. | In Central Khad, new consonant clusters, that had appeared after vowel reduction and elision, were usually simplified. For instance, the name of the Suropong Valley would be pronounced [sʷə.ɺə.ˈpoŋ] in Early Central Khad, but it became ''srpong'' [ʂɔ́ŋ] in Shanyi. The process of cluster simplification, devoicing and tonogenesis had begun in the central dialects with some later peripheral branches preserving most words intact, while other languages not allowing any clusters at all. In the Gyu language (spelt ''Dguts''), all consonant clusters disappeared completely, turning into such features as vowel mutation and tone (the name of the language itself is [gʲý]. | ||
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