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*No plosive lenition: ''*kiiki>kieke'' – “short”. | *No plosive lenition: ''*kiiki>kieke'' – “short”. | ||
*Complete diphthongization of long vowels in stressed syllable (including ''*ā>oa''). | *Complete diphthongization of long vowels in stressed syllable (including ''*ā>oa''). | ||
*Rounding: ''*å>o'', including *a before high vowels. | |||
*[[w:Apocope|apocope]] of the final "e" in nouns and verbs: ''skvan'' "neck" (E. ''skona''). The final "e" did not elide in genitive, which was "-es" originally, and in adjectives, where it was restored by analogy. | *[[w:Apocope|apocope]] of the final "e" in nouns and verbs: ''skvan'' "neck" (E. ''skona''). The final "e" did not elide in genitive, which was "-es" originally, and in adjectives, where it was restored by analogy. | ||
*Phonemes [kʷ] and [c]. | *Phonemes [kʷ] and [c]. | ||
*Phoneme "y" [ɪ]: ''*sujda>lyhta'' (E. ''lȯ'''ht'''a'') – “hay”. | *Phoneme "y" [ɪ]: ''*sujda>lyhta'' (E. ''lȯ'''ht'''a'') – “hay”. | ||
*Pitch accent: rising - ''éna'' [ɛ̌.nɑ] "language"; and falling - ''Ena'' [ɛ̂.nɑ] "the Ena region". | *Pitch accent: rising - ''éna'' [ɛ̌.nɑ] "language"; and falling - ''Ena'' [ɛ̂.nɑ] "the Ena region". | ||
===Transitional (Irekinėla)=== | ===Transitional (Irekinėla)=== | ||
The transitional dialects (''ehomėla irekėnėla'') are spoken in the west of the Keina Republic. This is not a genetic grouping and thus various dialects show different features closer to either Tarnan or Keian. None of these dialects have a specifically Keian [s̠] sound, but they also lack rounding of *ā typical to Tarnan (initial ''*ā>uo'' in Uve, but initial ''*ō>eu'', which means they did not merge like in Tarnan), with some also lacking rounding of the short *a. Dialects close to Keian lenite /f/ to [v] between vowels: ''lavat'' "house" (T. ''lauta''), but do not lenite /k/ or /t/ even word-finally. | The transitional dialects (''ehomėla irekėnėla'') are spoken in the west of the Keina Republic. This is not a genetic grouping and thus various dialects show different features closer to either Tarnan or Keian. None of these dialects have a specifically Keian [s̠] sound, but they also lack rounding of *ā typical to Tarnan (initial ''*ā>uo'' in Uve, but initial ''*ō>eu'', which means they did not merge like in Tarnan), with some also lacking rounding of the short *a. Dialects close to Keian lenite /f/ to [v] between vowels: ''lavat'' "house" (T. ''lauta''), but do not lenite /k/ or /t/ even word-finally. |
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