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==History== | ==Outline History== | ||
===Old Bźatga=== | |||
The Latin alphabet was introduced to Veśŕa by Irish monks in about the 8th century and was quickly adapted to writing Old Bźatga. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! colspan="2;"| Short Vowels !! colspan="2;" | Long Vowels !! colspan="2;" | Diphthongs !! colspan="6;" | Consonants | |||
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| width="50;" |''a'' || width="50;" | /a/ || width="50;" | ''á'' || width="50;" | /aː/ || width="30;" | ''ia'' || width="70;" | /ea > ia/ || width="50;" | ''p'' || width="50;" | /p/ || width="50;" | ''b'' || width="50;" | /b/ || width="50;" | ''u'' || width="50;" | /β/ | |||
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| ''e'' || /ɛ/ || ''é'' || /eː/ || ''ie'' || /ie/ || ''t'' || /t/ || ''d'' || /d/ || ''z'' || /ð̠/ | |||
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| ''i'' || /ɪ/ || ''í'' || /iː/ || ''ua'' || /oa > ua/ || ''c'' || /k/ || ''g'' || /g/ || ''i'' || /j/ | |||
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| ''o'' || /ɔ/ || ''ó'' || /oː/ || ''uo'' || /uo/ || ''m'' || /m/ || ''n'' || /n/ || ''s'' || /s/ | |||
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| ''u'' || /ʊ/ || ''ú'' || /uː/ || rowspan="3;" colspan="2;" | || ''l'' || /l/ || ''r'' || /r/ || ''h'' || /h/ | |||
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| rowspan="2;" colspan="2;" | || ''áe'' || /ɛː/ || colspan="6;" rowspan="2;" | | |||
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| ''óe'' || /ɔː/ | |||
|} | |||
The loss of distinctive vowel quantity during the Old Bźatga period led to the following vowel system: ''a, e, é, i, o, ó, u'', where ''é, ó'' represent /e, o/. Marked ''í, ú'' were often used to represent sequences of ''ii, uu'', e.g. ''dúo'' "black", ''ríe'' "kings". Iotisation continued to be marked with ''i'' after the consonant, e.g. Bźatga was written ''Briatéga'', ModBź. ''brańa'' "foul" was written ''brania'' (but in earlier texts also ''braina'' or ''brainia''). | |||
Nominal Inflection | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! !! width="100;" | ''donia'' "man" !! width="100;" | ''more'' "sea" !! width="100;" | ''prédo'' | |||
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| Nsg. || rowspan="2;" | ''donia'' || rowspan="4;" | ''more'' || rowspan="4;" | ''prédo'' | |||
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| Asg. | |||
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| Gsg. ||''donie'' | |||
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| Dsg. || ''doniu'' | |||
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| Npl. || ''donii'' || rowspan="2;" | ''mori'' || ''prédoue'' | |||
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| Apl. || ''doniu'' || ''prédu'' | |||
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| Gpl. || ''donia'' || ''moría'' || rowspan="2;" | ''prédúa'' | |||
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| Dpl. || ''donioua'' || ''moreua'' | |||
|} | |||
==Phonological History== | |||
===Proto-Celtic to Common Brittonic (to 1st Century AD)=== | ===Proto-Celtic to Common Brittonic (to 1st Century AD)=== | ||
* '''Short vowels remain in stressed syllables:''' ''a, e, i, o, u'' | * '''Short vowels remain in stressed syllables:''' ''a, e, i, o, u'' | ||