Verse:Mwail/Bjeheond: Difference between revisions

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 ==== Orthography ====
 A Far East Semitic based abugida
-==== Tone splits ====
+==== Tone diachronics ====
-Middle Cuam had 3 tones, like Middle Chinese.
+Middle Cuam (before the tone split) had 3 tones, like Middle Chinese, marked in the native script as unmarked, tone 1 and tone 2.
+Consonant classes (séimhiú didn't change the consonant class while urú did)
+* Mid: *k- series, glottal stop
+* High: *kh- series, voiceless fricatives, shR-
+* Low: *g series, voiced fricatives, resonants
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Tone chart
+!class
+!ending
+!none
+!-่
+!-้
+!-๊
+!-๋
+|-
+|mid
+|dead
+| style="background: #fa4" |low
+| -
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+| style="background: #cfa" |high
+| -
+|-
+|mid
+|alive
+| style="background: #f66" |mid
+| style="background: #fa4" |low
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+| style="background: #cfa" |high
+| style="background: #6fc" |rise
+|-
+|high
+|dead
+| style="background: #fa4" |low
+| -
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+|-
+|high
+|alive
+| style="background: #6fc" |rise
+| style="background: #fa4" |low
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+|-
+|low
+|dead (short vowel)
+| style="background: #cfa" |high
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+| -
+|-
+|low
+|dead (long vowel)
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+| -
+| style="background: #cfa" |high
+|-
+|low
+|alive
+| style="background: #f66" |mid
+| style="background: #ff3" |fall
+| style="background: #cfa" |high
+|-
+|}