Western Scots Norse: Difference between revisions
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All Outer dialects share the following features: | All Outer dialects share the following features: | ||
*front round vowels | *front round vowels > a back vowel, thus words like "systir" become {{lang|snon|{{term|siuest}}}} in Outer. | ||
*short i-e merger, always to /ɛ/. | *short i-e merger, always to /ɛ/. | ||
*loss of dental fricatives through merging variably with ⟨t, d⟩ or ⟨(c)h, gh⟩. (Always with ⟨(c)h, gh⟩ when slender) | *loss of dental fricatives through merging variably with ⟨t, d⟩ or ⟨(c)h, gh⟩. (Always with ⟨(c)h, gh⟩ when slender) | ||
*denasalization of nasal vowels, giving varying values throughout the dialects. | *denasalization of nasal vowels, giving varying values throughout the dialects. | ||
*merger of /r/ and /ɾ/. | *merger of /r/ and /ɾ/. | ||
* | *Broad A/À rather than the slender A and plain À of Inner dialects | ||
*no a-e merger, keeping ⟨a⟩ as /ə/, thus words like "hvelpr" and "hvalpa" become {{lang|snon|{{term|velp}}}} and {{lang|snon|{{term|valp}}}}, rather than merging to {{lang|snon|{{term|valp}}}} as in Inner. | |||
*no à > /o/ shift, keeping ⟨à⟩ as /ɑ/. Thus /ˈɑv/ ({{lang|snon|{{term|àv}}}}) for Inner /ˈovʲ/ ({{lang|snon|{{term|àev}}}}) | |||
*⟨a⟩ for Old Norse ⟨ǫ⟩, where Inner has ⟨o⟩. | |||
===Fadhaèghsc=== | ===Fadhaèghsc=== | ||
Fadhaèghsc, or High Scots Norse (Locative "high"),is spoken on {{lang|snon|{{term|Fadhaègh}}}}, or [[w:Lewis and Harris|Lewis and Harris]]. | Fadhaèghsc, or High Scots Norse (Locative "high"), is spoken on {{lang|snon|{{term|Fadhaègh}}}}, or [[w:Lewis and Harris|Lewis and Harris]]. | ||
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