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(Created page with "<strong>Sava</strong> (or <strong>Cava</strong> in the old orthography) is a language isolate spoken in the Savanese archipelago. =Etymology= The name <em>Sava</em> comes fro...") |
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Sava has the following prototypical onsets: p, t, c, k, ∅, b, d, j, g, m, n, ng. These form 3 series of consonants which change in certain phonological contexts: C-, -C- and -QC-. | |||
The first series (p, t, c, k, ∅) stay as plosives for C-, become fricatives for -C-, and become plosives (preglottalised, geminated or plain) for -QC- – with the exception of //∅//, which only surfaces for -QC- as a glottal stop 〈'〉; and phonetically //c//, which in recent times is now /s/, /s/ and /cc/. | |||
The second series (b, d, j, g) stay phonologically voiced plosives for C-, become voiced continuants for -C-, and become prenasalised for -QC-. | |||
The third series are nasals, and they stay the same for both C- and -C-, while changing for -QC- into pre-stopped nasals (e.g. pm, tn, kng), or emphatically having 〈'u〉 placed before a geminate form (e.g. 〈-'umm-〉).? | |||