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Phonemically, the inventory of Fathanic may be said to be essentially the same as the Bronic one, as Fathanic /ɛ ɔ/ almost always correspond perfectly to instances of /ea̯ wa/ in Bronic. The most notable phonetic difference, however, is that Fathan features notable vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, which is nearly absent in Bronic. | Phonemically, the inventory of Fathanic may be said to be essentially the same as the Bronic one, as Fathanic /ɛ ɔ/ almost always correspond perfectly to instances of /ea̯ wa/ in Bronic. The most notable phonetic difference, however, is that Fathan features notable vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, which is nearly absent in Bronic. | ||
Moamatemposisy is closer to Fathanic than standard Bronic, but has the "intermediate stage" /wɔ/ for Bronic /wa/ and Fathanic /ɔ/, and fully merges /o u/ into the latter. Bronic unstressed /e/ also shifts to /i/ if surrounded by non-front vowels (cf. the city it takes its name from: Br. ''Moamatempony'' [mwamatemˈpunʲ], Fath. ''Mŏmϑempuń'' [mɔnθemˈpuɲ], Moam. ''Mwåmahimpuñ'' [mwɔmahimˈpuɲ]). | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||