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''Note:'' for simplicity, '''ь''' will be treated as a stand-alone consonant in all the following examples. | ''Note:'' for simplicity, '''ь''' will be treated as a stand-alone consonant in all the following examples. | ||
Saṃdhi assimilations are fairly straightforward, and usually it’s the second consonant in a row the one that matters. The most basic rules are: | |||
* Nasals assimilate to the PoA of any following consonant except for '''y''' (no assimilation occurs) and '''s''' (all become '''ṃ''', phonetically realized as vowel nasalization). | |||
* All stops assimilate in voicing to a following stop; if the first one is aspirated, then aspiration shifts to the second one. Dentals also assimilate to adjacent (preceding or following) retroflexes. | |||
In stop saṃdhi, a few further changes apart from basic voicing and retroflex assimilation occur. Note that any such combination also applies to aspirated stops and, for dentals, palatalized ones; ç as a second member behaves like t. In voiceless stops: | |||
-'''pṭ'''- → -'''fṭ'''- ; -'''pc'''- → -'''ṃc'''- | |||
-'''tp'''- → -'''tt'''- ; -'''tc'''- → -'''cc'''- ; -'''tk'''- → -'''kt'''- | |||
-'''çp'''- → -'''sp'''- ; -'''çṭ'''- → '''ṣṭ'''- ; -'''çc'''- → -'''cc'''- ; -'''çk'''- → -'''sk'''- | |||
-'''ṭp'''- → -'''ṭṭ'''- ; -'''ṭc'''- → -'''cc'''- ; -'''ṭk'''- → -'''kṭ'''- | |||
-'''cp'''- → -'''cc'''- ; -'''ct'''- → -'''kt'''- ; -'''cṭ'''- → -'''ṣṭ'''- ; -'''ck'''- → -'''šk'''- | |||
-'''kp'''- → -'''pp'''- ; -'''kc'''- → -'''cc'''- | |||
Doubled stops and the combinations -'''pt'''-, -'''pk'''-, -'''çt'''-, -'''kt'''-, and -'''kṭ'''- remain unchanged. | |||
Voiced stops mostly mirror voiceless assimilations (again, x behaves like d when second member; doubling saṃdhi already applied - all nasal + stop clusters are underlyingly a geminate stop): | |||
-'''bḍ'''- → -'''ṇḍ'''- ; -'''bj'''- → -'''ṃj'''- ; -'''bg'''- → -'''lg'''- | |||
-'''db'''- → -'''nd'''- ; -'''dj'''- → -'''ñj'''- ; -'''dg'''- → -'''gd'''- | |||
-'''xb'''- → -'''nx'''- ; -'''xḍ'''- → -'''ṇḍ'''- ; -'''xj'''- → -'''ñj'''- ; -'''xg'''- → -'''lg'''- | |||
-'''ḍb'''- → -'''ṇḍ'''- ; -'''ḍj'''- → -'''ñj'''- ; -'''ḍg'''- → -'''gḍ'''- | |||
-'''j''' + any other stop → -'''jñ'''- | |||
-'''gb'''- → -'''mb'''- ; -'''gj'''- → -'''ñj'''- | |||
Doubled stops become a nasal+stop sequence; -'''bd'''-, -'''xd'''-, -'''gd'''-, and -'''gḍ'''- remain unchanged. | |||
'''h''', wherever it is followed by a consonant (apart from '''ь'''), disappears, leaving its trace as breathy-voiced phonation on the preceding vowel (e.g. ''maih-leilė'' → ''mąileilė''). Vowels change as such: | '''h''', wherever it is followed by a consonant (apart from '''ь'''), disappears, leaving its trace as breathy-voiced phonation on the preceding vowel (e.g. ''maih-leilė'' → ''mąileilė''). Vowels change as such: | ||