Brono-Fathanic: Difference between revisions

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===Vowels===

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!  !! Front !! Central !! Back

| '''ea''' ea̯ || || '''oa''' wa

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/o/ is a fairly marginal phoneme, only appearing in stressed syllables; many people merge it with /u/ in all but a few words (a notable one always pronounced with /o/ is ''Barôno'' "Brono" /baˈronu/ and all derivates).

Bronic, in stark contrast to Fathanic, has almost no vowel reduction in unstressed syllables: only pretonic /a/ is reduced to [ə], but only if the tonic vowel is /e o a/.

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Phonemically, the inventory of Fathanic may be said to be essentially the same as the Bronic one, as Fathanic /ɛ ɔ/ almost always correspond perfectly to instances of /ea̯ wa/ in Bronic. The most notable phonetic difference, however, is that Fathan features notable vowel reduction in unstressed syllables, which is nearly absent in Bronic.

Moamatemposisy is closer to Fathanic (except for the lack of syncope) than standard Bronic, but has the "intermediate stage" /wɔ/ for Bronic /wa/ and Fathanic /ɔ/, and fully merges /o u/ into the latter. Bronic unstressed /e/ also shifts to /i/ if surrounded by non-front vowels (cf. the city it takes its name from: Br. ''Moamatempony'' [mwamatemˈpunʲ], Fath. ''Mŏmϑempuń'' [mɔnθemˈpuɲ], Moam. ''Mwåmahimpuñ'' [mwɔmahimˈpuɲ]).

===Prosody===

====Stress====

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===Morphophonology===

==Morphology==

===Nouns===