Chlouvānem: Difference between revisions
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=====Lengthening===== | =====Lengthening===== | ||
Lengthening alternations, which originate in Proto-Lahob, substitute a vowel with its lengthened form. There are many | Lengthening alternations, which originate in Proto-Lahob, substitute a vowel with its lengthened form. There are many apparently irregular cases, due to the huge vowel shifts that happened between Proto-Lahob (PLB) and Chlouvānem. Note that PLB *î represents /ɨ/ or /ɨ̯/.<br/>Lengthening as a type of vowel alternation is the so-called ''diachronic lengthening'', as the results are largely determined by what those vowels were in PLB: | ||
* '''a''' → '''ā''' | * '''a''' → '''ā''' | ||
** '''a''' → '''ū''' (PLB *o → *ō) | ** '''a''' → '''ū''' (PLB *o → *ō) | ||
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* '''oe''' → '''ai''' (PLB *oj → *ōj) | * '''oe''' → '''ai''' (PLB *oj → *ōj) | ||
* '''ṛ''' → '''ar''' | * '''ṛ''' → '''ar''' | ||
Another, different type of lengthening, is ''synchronic lengthening'', which is a saṃdhi change; it only applies to '''a''', '''i''', '''u''', and '''e''', turning them into '''ā''', '''ī''', '''ū''', and '''ė''' respectively. | |||
====Consonant alternations==== | ====Consonant alternations==== | ||