Esilien: Difference between revisions

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 ===Vowels===
+Esilienskú retains a vowel system similar to Icelandic, with a distinction between front and back vowels and phonemic vowel length in stressed syllables.
+====Monophthongs====
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align: center;"
+|+ Vowel phones
+!           !! Front !! Central !! Back
+|-
+! Close
+| i y ||  || u
+|-
+! Close-mid
+| e ø ||  || o
+|-
+! Open-mid
+| ɛ ||  || ɔ
+|-
+! Open
+| æ || a || ɑ
+|}
+'''Notes:'''
+* ⟨æ⟩ is highly productive in native vocabulary
+* Vowel length is phonemic in stressed syllables but reduced in unstressed positions
+* Substrate influence contributes to increased central vowel usage in some dialects
+====Diphthongs====
+{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto; text-align: center;"
+|+ Diphthong offglides
+! Offglide → !! Front !! Back
+|-
+! Front
+| ei ||
+|-
+|   || ai
+|-
+! Back
+|  || au
+|-
+|  || || ou
+|}
+'''Notes:'''
+* Diphthongs are most common in compound words and morphological transitions
+* Interaction with -wye can trigger glide insertion (/w/ or /j/ depending on phonological context)
 ===Stress===