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===Common Brittonic=== | ===Common Brittonic=== | ||
Carrick inherited the following consonant inventory from Common Brittonic: | |||
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! width="100px;| !! colspan="2;" | Bilabial | ! width="100px;| !! colspan="2;" | Bilabial || colspan="2;"| Dental/</br>Alveolar !! colspan="2;" | Palatal || colspan="2;"| Velar || colspan="2;"| Glottal | ||
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! Plosive | ! Plosive | ||
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! Fricative | ! Fricative | ||
| ɸ || || s || || || || x || | | ɸ || (β, μ) || s || (ð) || || || x || (ɣ) || (h) || | ||
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! Nasal | ! Nasal | ||
| || m || || n || | || || || (ŋ) | | || m || || n || | || || || (ŋ) || || | ||
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! Approximant | ! Approximant | ||
| || w || || l || || j || || | | || w || || l || || j || || || || | ||
|- | |- | ||
! Trill | ! Trill | ||
| || || || r || || || || | | || || || r || || || || || || | ||
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The process of lenition weakened intervocalic consonants, including those at the beginning and end of a word in continuous speech, creating a chain shift of voiceless stop > voiced stop > voiced fricative, plus ''m'' > ''μ'' (a voiced bilabial nasalised fricative), ''s > h'' and probably ''ɸ'' > Ø. Meanwhile, geminate stops and ''ss'' were shortened to fill the gap created by the lenited allophones (e.g. ''katus'' "battle" > ''kaduh'' but ''kattā'' > ''katā''). | |||
The Brittonic vowel inventory had already undergone changes, creating long monophthongs from old diphthongs. It consisted of five short and seven long vowels, plus triphthongs consisting of ''ijV'': | |||
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| a || || aː </br> (< aː, au) || | | a || || aː </br> (< aː, au) || | ||
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===Proto-Carrick=== | ===Proto-Carrick=== | ||