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* /ɔ/ is realized as [oː] word-finally (though very rare); | * /ɔ/ is realized as [oː] word-finally (though very rare); | ||
* /u/ is moderately fronted - usually to [ʉ] - after palatalized consonants and /j/ (explaining why /y/ or similar vowels are usually borrowed as /ju/). | * /u/ is moderately fronted - usually to [ʉ] - after palatalized consonants and /j/ (explaining why /y/ or similar vowels are usually borrowed as /ju/). | ||
The variants of Chlouvānem spoken by the Chlouvānem minorities in Kŭyŭgwažtov, Soenyŏ-tave, and other countries of the former Kaiṣamā have acquired, through language contact, the front rounded vowels /y ø/ - they are present in loans from the majority languages of those areas (cf. in Kŭyŭgwaž Chlouvānem ''köndegura'' /ˈkøndeguʀa/ "mountain road", ''nüvka'' /ˈnyʋka/ (a typical dish) < Kŭy. ''köndŭgŭr'', ''nüvŭk''), as well as in peculiar sound changes from the standard pronunciation (Kŭy.Chl. /y/ for standard /ju/ and /ʲu/, e.g. ''yutia'' "land, province" /ˈ(j)ytʲa/). | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||