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====Voice assimilation==== | ====Voice assimilation==== | ||
When a prefix beginning in an obstruent attaches to a word ending in an obstruent, the initial consonant of the prefix assimilates to the final consonant of the root in voicing. If their places of articulation are close enough, there may be complete assimilation. Similarly, a final obstruent in a prefix assimilates to a following obstruent. A similar process takes place with the first component of compound words, but this is not indicated in writing. | When a prefix beginning in an obstruent attaches to a word ending in an obstruent, the initial consonant of the prefix assimilates to the final consonant of the root in voicing. If their places of articulation are close enough, there may be complete assimilation. Similarly, a final obstruent in a prefix assimilates to a following obstruent. A similar process takes place with the first component of compound words, but this is not indicated in writing. | ||
==== | ====Hiatus resolution==== | ||
When vowels meet at morpheme boundaries, the following changes take place: | When vowels meet at morpheme boundaries, the following changes take place: | ||
*ə + ə > a | *ə + ə > a | ||
* | *any other identical vowels merge into one of the same vowel | ||
*a + æ, æ + a > æ | |||
*æ + e, e + æ > e | |||
*ə > disappears / before or after any vowel except ə | |||
*v is inserted between rounded vowel (o, ø, u, y) and any adjacent vowel except ə | |||
*e; i > je; ji / after any non-rounded vowel except ə | |||
*a > ja / after unrounded front vowel | |||
====Vowel epenthesis==== | ====Vowel epenthesis==== | ||
When an illegal consonant cluster would occur at a morpheme boundary, an epenthetic high vowel is inserted. This vowel harmonizes with the preceding vowel, or the following vowel if there is no preceding vowel. | When an illegal consonant cluster would occur at a morpheme boundary, an epenthetic high vowel is inserted. This vowel harmonizes with the preceding vowel, or the following vowel if there is no preceding vowel. | ||