Modern Gallaecian mutation

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Modern Gallaecian features, as other Celtic languages, a word-initial consonantal mutation system. While there is some evidence that other Continental Celtic languages such as Gaulish might have evolved mutation,[1] it is impossible to ascertain whether Gallaecian would too.

Soft mutation (bucoscaso)

The so-called soft mutation affects plosive consonants.

Environments

  • Feminine nouns of either number in the direct case after the definite article: beaem vea, terbaem derbas.
  • Singular masculine nouns in the locative case after the definite article: torhedoen dorheide.
  • After singular possessive pronouns, that is, mo ‘my’, to ‘your’, and so ‘his/her/its’: quenomo gueno, páto bá, gañaso haña.
  • After certain prepositions:
  • In singular existential constructions: téTa dé uba ‘There is tea here’
  • After the numbers 2, 5, and 8: tomatedau domate, quessoquenque guesso, polbootu bolbo.
  • After the negative particle ne: cobruñeNe gobru ‘I don't want’

Nasal mutation (esloñaloscaso)

Notes

  1. ^ Gray, Louis H. (October 1944). "Mutation in Gaulish". Language. Linguistic Society of America. 20 (4): 223. doi:10.2307/410121. JSTOR 410121.

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