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* Diphthongs are pronounced more as /VV/ sequences with a hiatus. | * Diphthongs are pronounced more as /VV/ sequences with a hiatus. | ||
* The evidential particles lose their final vowels, instead being pronounced as bare consonants. | * The evidential particles lose their final vowels, instead being pronounced as bare consonants. | ||
* The past-tense affix ''-pu'' becomes simply ''-p''. | * The past-tense affix ''-pu-'' becomes simply ''-p''. | ||
====Fukanucha Rttirri==== | ====Fukanucha Rttirri==== | ||
The | The advanced sub-dialect of Fukanucha shows the following additional features: | ||
* The already fronted /ɑ/ is further fronted to [a]. | * The already fronted /ɑ/ is further fronted to [a]. | ||
* The already lowered /ø/ is unrounded to [ɛ~æ]. | * The already lowered /ø/ is unrounded to [ɛ~æ]. | ||
* The ''-n'' evidential particle may be realized simply as nasality on the preceding vowel. Likewise, the ''-ny'' evidential particle may be realized in the same way, with the addition of a final [ʝ]. | * The ''-n'' evidential particle may be realized simply as nasality on the preceding vowel. Likewise, the ''-ny'' evidential particle may be realized in the same way, with the addition of a final [ʝ]. | ||
====Yenesni Rttirri==== | |||
Another advanced sub-dialect of Eastern Rttirri is spoken in most of Yenesni and southern Manamuki, showing the following additional features: | |||
* The already lowered /ø/ is unrounded to [ɛ]. | |||
* The "Yenesni Shift" is a chain shift of several vowel phonemes after labial consonants, except in most foreign names, affixes, and function words. The shift is considered to be in progress, and it may be spreading to Akkakau and other Eastern provinces; younger speakers in Akkakau appear to be showing the early stages of the Yenesni Shift. | |||
:*/i/: [i] > [e] | |||
:*/e/: [e] > [ɛ] | |||
:*/ø/: [ɛ] > [ä] | |||
:*/ɑ/: [ä] > [ɒ~o] | |||
:*/o/: [o] > [u] | |||
* By analogy with the past-tense ''-p-'', the future-tense ''-mi-'' becomes ''-m-'', and is pronounced [ŋ] before velar consonants. | |||
===Western Rttirri=== | ===Western Rttirri=== | ||