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==Changes from [[Griutungi]] & Gothic to [[Old Valthungian]] (ca. 300ᴀᴅ‒950ᴀᴅ)==
==Changes from [[Griutungi]] & Gothic to [[Old Valthungian]] (ca. 300ᴀᴅ‒950ᴀᴅ)==
===Spirantisation I===
===Spirantisation I===
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
!colspan=2 width=1200|Spirantisation I: C[-snt][+vox] → [+cnt] / V,L}___{V,L
|-
!style="text-align: right; width: 100px;"| Date:
|style="width: 1100px;"| 300ᴀᴅ
|-
!style="text-align: right;"| Type:
| Phonetic
|-
!style="text-align: right; vertical-align: text-top;"| Rule:
| <span style="font-family: monospace;">C[-snt][+vox] → [+cnt] / V,L}___{V,L</span><br />
''“A voiced stop becomes continuant after a vowel or liquid when followed by a vowel or liquid.”''
|-
!style="text-align: right;"| Exhaustive:
| b,d,g → β,ð,ɣ
|-
!style="text-align: right;"| Notes:
| ''Already occurred pre-Gothic and even in Proto-Germanic (“Spirantisation 0”), but not exactly in this form. May not have included liquids in the environment. Allophonic at this stage.''
|}
===Pre-Liquid Stop Insertion===
===Pre-Liquid Stop Insertion===
===Geminate Collapse I===
===Geminate Collapse I===

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N.B.: This article uses a phonetic feature notation shorthand in which all described features are limited to three characters. Please refer to the legend here.

Changes from Griutungi & Gothic to Old Valthungian (ca. 300ᴀᴅ‒950ᴀᴅ)

Spirantisation I

Spirantisation I: C[-snt][+vox] → [+cnt] / V,L}___{V,L
Date: 300ᴀᴅ
Type: Phonetic
Rule: C[-snt][+vox] → [+cnt] / V,L}___{V,L

“A voiced stop becomes continuant after a vowel or liquid when followed by a vowel or liquid.”

Exhaustive: b,d,g → β,ð,ɣ
Notes: Already occurred pre-Gothic and even in Proto-Germanic (“Spirantisation 0”), but not exactly in this form. May not have included liquids in the environment. Allophonic at this stage.

Pre-Liquid Stop Insertion

Geminate Collapse I

Spirantisation II

Deletion of Interconsonantal h

Spirantisation III

Expansion of [fl]→[θl], [hL]

Consonant Cluster Voice Changes I

Clisis & Lexicalisation

Consonant Cluster Voice Changes II

Changes to Geminate Obstruents

Changes to Geminate Nasals I

Changes to Geminate Liquids

Metathesis

Deletion of s after r

s-Clusters Diffused

Lengthening of Word-Final Stressed Vowels

Reversal of High Diphthong Altitude Trajectory

Umlaut

Launch of Rhotacism

Changes of /j/ to /ʝ/

Long Mid Vowel Diphthongisation I

Expansion of East Germanic Verschärfung

Deletion of Final Unstressed [a]

Changes from Old Valthungian to Middle Valthungian (ca. 950ᴀᴅ‒1350ᴀᴅ)

Defenestration of Greek Fricatives

Changes to Geminate Nasals II

Deletion of word-initial prenasalised stops

Rhotacism Failure

j/z Merger

Initial h to þ before a sonorant

Assimilation of h after short vowels

Repulsion of h after long vowels

All of the Above

Changes to Geminates

Change of h to þ after a liquid

Assimilation of s in Consonant Clusters

Palatalisation of sk

Palatalisation of h before j

Palatalisation of Non-Labial Stops before j

Vowel Reduction: Long Vowel Shortening

Vowel Reduction: Diphthong Changes

Vowel Reduction: Schwa Changes

Vowel Reduction: Syllabic Sonorants

Changes from Middle Valthungian to Modern Valthungian (ca. 1350ᴀᴅ‒1850ᴀᴅ)

Reduction of Consonant Clusters

Vowel Reduction II: Lowering of Unstressed Short Vowels

Vowel Reduction II: Shortening of Unstressed Long Vowels

Change of ju to eu after r

Changes to Unstressed Word-Final Syllables

Deletion of j and Merging of Palatal Afficates

Vowel Tensing

Syllabic Unpacking

Schwa Fortition to /a/

Syllabification of word-final falling diphthongs

Monophthongisation of Diphthongs over Morpheme Boundaries

Relaxisation of Middle Diphthongs

Changes from Early Modern Valthungian to the present

Labial Trimming

Deletion of Internasal g

Changes to w