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*resh is an alveolar flap as in Broad Cualand English
*resh is an alveolar flap as in Broad Cualand English
*vav and lenited beth become the Hawaiian v~w phoneme, for modern speakers it's /v/
*vav and lenited beth become the Hawaiian v~w phoneme, for modern speakers it's /v/
*ani "I" is sometimes pronounced /ɪni/; this is a regionalism in Cualand and is rare nowadays
*tzere and segol are sometimes distinguished in some older Cualand accents as /e:/ and /ɛ/, but these are merged in modern accents. Even in older accents, tzere is realized as /ɛ/ in closed syllables, such as /lɛv/ "heart" and /zɛɾ/ "wreath". Tzere is never a diphthong in Cualand.
*tzere and segol are sometimes distinguished in some older Cualand accents as /e:/ and /ɛ/, but these are merged in modern accents. Even in older accents, tzere is realized as /ɛ/ in closed syllables, such as /lɛv/ "heart" and /zɛɾ/ "wreath". Tzere is never a diphthong in Cualand.
*In older Cualand dialects there was a distinction between segol from PSem *a, pronounced /æ/ and segol from PSem *i, pronounced /ɛ/, but these have been merged in the modern language.
*In older Cualand dialects there was a distinction between segol from PSem *a, pronounced /æ/ and segol from PSem *i, pronounced /ɛ/, but these have been merged in the modern language.
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