Chlouvānem: Difference between revisions

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| '''Sound''' || /æ/ || /a/ || /aː/ || /ɑ̤/ || /aɪ̯/ || /a̤ɪ̯/ || /eɪ̯/ || /e̤ɪ̯/ || /eɐ̯/ || /ɔə̯/

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| '''Letter''' || '''au''' || '''ąu''' || '''ou''' || '''ṛ''' || '''ṝ''' || || || || ||

| '''Letter''' || '''au''' || '''ąu''' || '''å''' || '''ou''' || '''ṛ''' || '''ṝ''' || || || ||

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| '''Sound''' || /aʊ̯/ || /a̤ʊ̯/ || /ɔʊ̯/ || /ʀ̩/ || /ʀ̩ː/ || || || || ||

| '''Sound''' || /aʊ̯/ || /a̤ʊ̯/ || /ɔ/ <sub><small>(see below)</small></sub> || /ɔʊ̯/ || /ʀ̩/ || /ʀ̩ː/ || || || ||

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Some orthographical and phonological notes:

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* Long vowels are vowel + /n/ if unrounded (īn, ėn, ān), or /m/ if rounded (ūm). Oral diphthongs all have diphthong + /m/ + first element (aima, eime...).

* Breathy-voiced vowels are vowel + /ɦ/ + vowel (įi, ųu, ęe, ąa). Breathy-voiced diphthongs are diphthong + /ɦ/ + oral second element (ąihi, ęihi, ąuhu).

===o and å===

In today's standard Chlouvānem, the letters '''o''' and '''å''' are homophones, being both pronounced /ɔ/: their distribution reflects their origin in Proto-Lahob (PLB), with '''o''' deriving from PLB *aw and *ow, and '''å''' from either *a umlauted by a (lost) *o in a following syllable, or, most commonly, from the sequences *o(ː)wa, *o(ː)fa, *o(ː)wo, or *o(ː)fo.

Most Chlouvānem sources, however, classify '''å''' as a ''diphthong'': Classical Era sources nearly accurately describe it as /ao̯̯/, later monophthongized to /ʌ/ or /ɒ/ and merged with /ɔ/ - in fact, most daughter languages have the same reflex for both '''o''' and '''å'''.

It should be noted that in the present day a spelling-based difference between those two letters is becoming more common: in Līlasuṃghāṇa '''å''' is increasingly often /oː/, and this is spreading in many other areas - due to mass media influence, there's not a true areal pattern; while it is spreading faster in major urban areas (e.g. in Cami, about 3500 km away from Līlasuṃghāṇa) not all of them do, including some of the closest ones (e.g. Līṭhalyinām, 450 km south of the capital).

==Morphology - Maivāndarāmita==

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 | '''Sound''' || /æ/ || /a/ || /aː/ || /ɑ̤/ || /aɪ̯/ || /a̤ɪ̯/ || /eɪ̯/ || /e̤ɪ̯/ || /eɐ̯/ || /ɔə̯/
 |-
-| '''Letter''' || '''au''' || '''ąu''' || '''ou'''  || '''ṛ''' || '''ṝ''' || || || || ||
+| '''Letter''' || '''au''' || '''ąu''' || '''å''' || '''ou'''  || '''ṛ''' || '''ṝ''' || || || ||
 |-
-| '''Sound''' || /aʊ̯/ || /a̤ʊ̯/ || /ɔʊ̯/ || /ʀ̩/ || /ʀ̩ː/ || || || || ||
+| '''Sound''' || /aʊ̯/ || /a̤ʊ̯/ || /ɔ/ <sub><small>(see below)</small></sub> || /ɔʊ̯/ || /ʀ̩/ || /ʀ̩ː/ || || || ||
 |-
 |}
 Some orthographical and phonological notes:
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 * Long vowels are vowel + /n/ if unrounded (īn, ėn, ān), or /m/ if rounded (ūm). Oral diphthongs all have diphthong + /m/ + first element (aima, eime...).
 * Breathy-voiced vowels are vowel + /ɦ/ + vowel (įi, ųu, ęe, ąa). Breathy-voiced diphthongs are diphthong + /ɦ/ + oral second element (ąihi, ęihi, ąuhu).
+===o and å===
+In today's standard Chlouvānem, the letters '''o''' and '''å''' are homophones, being both pronounced /ɔ/: their distribution reflects their origin in Proto-Lahob (PLB), with '''o''' deriving from PLB *aw and *ow, and '''å''' from either *a umlauted by a (lost) *o in a following syllable, or, most commonly, from the sequences *o(ː)wa, *o(ː)fa, *o(ː)wo, or *o(ː)fo.
+Most Chlouvānem sources, however, classify '''å''' as a ''diphthong'': Classical Era sources nearly accurately describe it as /ao̯̯/, later monophthongized to /ʌ/ or /ɒ/ and merged with /ɔ/ - in fact, most daughter languages have the same reflex for both '''o''' and '''å'''.
+It should be noted that in the present day a spelling-based difference between those two letters is becoming more common: in Līlasuṃghāṇa '''å''' is increasingly often /oː/, and this is spreading in many other areas - due to mass media influence, there's not a true areal pattern; while it is spreading faster in major urban areas (e.g. in Cami, about 3500 km away from Līlasuṃghāṇa) not all of them do, including some of the closest ones (e.g. Līṭhalyinām, 450 km south of the capital).
 ==Morphology - Maivāndarāmita==