Western Voþken
Introduction
Western Voþken is a daughter of Voþken that came as a result of the isolation between the western and eastern divide after the Fire Rebellion.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Dental | Alveolar | Post Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | ||
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| Plosive | voiceless | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | |||||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||||
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | þ /θ/ | s /s/ | c /ʃ/ | h /χ/ | ||||
| voiced | ð /ð/ | s [z]* | |||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | f /ʍ/ | |||||||
| voiced | v /ʋ/ | r /ɹ/ | y /j/ | w /ɰ/ | |||||
| Lateral Approximant | l /l/ | ||||||||
*allophone
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | Diphthongs | |
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| Close | i /i/ | u /u/ | ||
| Near-Close | i/y /ɪ/ [ɪ]* | |||
| Close-Mid | o /o/ | ei/ey /ej/ | ||
| Mid | a /ə/ | |||
| Open-Mid | e /ɛ/ | oi/oy /ɔɪ/ | ||
| Near-Open | ||||
| Open | a [a]* | o [ɑ]* | ai/ay /aj/ |
*allophone
Except for diphthongs, all vowels have a nasal allophone.
Phonotactics
Allowed Syllables
- (C)(C)V(C)(C)
Consonant Clusters Word Initial
- [fricative]+[nasal,liquid,stop]
- [stop]+[nasal,liquid,fricative]
Word Internal
Word Final
- [fricative]+[stop]
- [stop]+[fricative]
- /m/+/b/
- /n/+[stop,excluding /b/]
Phonological Rules
- /ɛ/ > [ə] / _#
- /s/ > [z] / $_[+voiced +consonant]
- /s/ > [z] / [+voiced +consonant]_$
- /o/ > [ɔ] / _/j/
- /j/ > [ɪ] / /ʊ/_
- /j/ > [ɪ] / [+consonant] _ [+consonant]
- /j/ > [i] / [+consonant] _#
- /ə/ > [a] / _/j/$
- [dental fricative] > ∅ / #_ [velar stop]
- /ɹ/ > ∅ / [vowel] _#
- [vowel] > [nasalization] / _[nasal]
- /o/ > [ɑ] / /ɰ/_
Stress
Western Sound Changes
First Wave
- [+labiodental +fricative] > [-labiodental +labial]
- [+dental +fricative] > ∅ / #_ [velar stop]
- /w/ >/ɰ/
- /ʊ/ > /o/
- /ɹ/ > ∅ / [+vowel] _#
- /x/ > /χ/
Second Wave
- [+labial +fricative] > [-fricative +approximant]
- [+vowel] > [+nasalization] / _[nasal]
- /o/ > [ɑ] / [ɰ]_
- [æ] > [ə]
Orthography
| Uppercase | Romanization | A | B | C | D | Ð | E | F | G | H | I | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | Þ | T | U | V | W | Y |
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| Lowercase | Romanization | a | b | c | d | ð | e | f | g | h | i | k | l | m | n | o | p | r | s | þ | t | u | v | w | y |
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Spelling Changes
- The use of < i > in place of < y > where the /j/ is used in the construction of diphthongs
- Where letters are no longer pronounced, in interests of preserving phonetics, the letter would no longer be written