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b, d, ɟ, g > _ / sporadic (mostly in common words) | b, d, ɟ, g > _ / sporadic (mostly in common words) | ||
Meinhof's Rule: NCVN(C) > NNVN(C) | |||
p, b > p͡f, b͡v / _i, _u | p, b > p͡f, b͡v / _i, _u | ||
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ə > a / after non-labialized guttural consonant<!--, before guttural consonant that is followed by a (including from ä) or ï/Ø--> | ə > a / after non-labialized guttural consonant<!--, before guttural consonant that is followed by a (including from ä) or ï/Ø--> | ||
Kola used to have a pitch accent system with two distinctive tones: high/rising (indicated with an acute accent) and low/falling (indicated with a grave accent). This distinction has been lost in most modern varieties. The general development of tone pre-loss was as follows (after taking tone shifts due to vowel reduction into account): | |||
*á, áá, àá > á | *á, áá, àá > á | ||
*à, àà, áà > à | *à, àà, áà > à | ||
*ultimate or penultimate syllable of root accented; other tones dropped | *ultimate or penultimate syllable of root accented; other tones dropped | ||
====Dialectal features==== | ====Dialectal features==== | ||