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Jukethatbox (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Due to the large amount of speakers of Moshurian, regional variations of the language have developed over centuries of history. ==Specific phenomena== ===N-Schwa shift=== The '''N-Schwa shift''', also called the '''Àrenàk shift''',(Moshurian: ''gélakh àrenàk'') refers to the historical(and ongoing) phonological shift of the Moshurian /ə̃/ phoneme, called the ''àrenàk''([ə̃ˈɽɛn.ə̃k]) natively and the "n-schwa" among Anglophone...") |
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* From /ð/ → [θ](Western) or [ð](Eastern) | * From /ð/ → [θ](Western) or [ð](Eastern) | ||
* From /x/ → [ʁ](Western) or [χ](Eastern) | * From /x/ → [ʁ](Western) or [χ](Eastern) | ||
* /e/ and /i/ merge into [e~i]. Western speakers lean towards [i] more often than [e], while Eastern speakers do the opposite. However, morphological distinction breaks down in both cases, as in: | |||
* /e/ and /i/ merge into [e~i]. Western speakers lean towards [i] more often than [e], while Eastern speakers do the opposite. | ** ''uthilikh'' → anything between [uθeliʁ] to [uðileχ] | ||
===Odezyë dialect=== | ===Odezyë dialect=== | ||