Togarmite: Difference between revisions
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==Dialects== | ==Dialects== | ||
===Ethiopian dialect=== | ===Ethiopian dialect=== | ||
some different vocab | some different vocab e.g. ''þėþ'' instead of ''wyhėb'', ''døbrėn'' instead of ''þėma'' | ||
some words can have different meanings in Ethiopian and Levantine leading to some funny misunderstandings | some words can have different meanings in Ethiopian and Levantine leading to some funny misunderstandings | ||
phonological differences ("ear" -> ødny) | |||
<poem> | |||
a e ė i o ø u y [a e̞ ɛi i ɔ ɵ u (ə)] | |||
ei au [ɒi ø:~øo] | |||
a broad Ethiopian accent in Togarmite has random variation in some words like heno, šamo, šydo etc are pronounced hena, šama, šyda | |||
-an -> -en is common in a broad Ethiopian accent (darxan -> darxen); this should typically happen only with agentives, otherwise møsaxen / møsaxan would be mixed up (that would be one of the telltale signs of a non-Ethiopian faking an accent) | |||
</poem> | |||
===Indian Togarmite=== | |||
<poem> | |||
a e ė i o ø u y /a: e~ɪ ɛ: i o: ʊ u: ə/ | |||
ei au /ai ɔ:/ | |||
</poem> | |||
===New World dialect=== | ===New World dialect=== | ||