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Many of the idiosyncrasies of Finian have to do with the resulting development of these newly produced stops. Generally, these stops undergo fricativization resulting in the voiced fricatives /β/ and /ɣ/. Some dialects though, appear to have replaced /β/ with /v/ as in /'valor/ | Many of the idiosyncrasies of Finian have to do with the resulting development of these newly produced stops. Generally, these stops undergo fricativization resulting in the voiced fricatives /β/ and /ɣ/. Some dialects though, appear to have replaced /β/ with /v/ as in /'valor/ ('flower') attested from inscriptions (there rendered as {{smallcaps|uualor}}). | ||
One relatively strange change is the change of this /d/ to /l/ in the beginning of words. Although seemingly strange, it is not unparalleled with a similar development in Latin, cf. Finian ''lanag'', Latin ''lingua'', Dhannuá ''dhannuá'', Irish ''teanga'' and reconstructed Proto-Indo-European '''*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s'''. | One relatively strange change is the change of this /d/ to /l/ in the beginning of words. Although seemingly strange, it is not unparalleled with a similar development in Latin, cf. Finian ''lanag'', Latin ''lingua'', Dhannuá ''dhannuá'', Irish ''teanga'' and reconstructed Proto-Indo-European '''*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s'''. | ||