User:Ceige/Yingxi

Taxonomy

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	Splitoff #1
Ancient Yincese	Splitoff #2 Old Yincese {{{1}}} Middle Yincese Splitoff #4 Early Modern Yincese Dialect #1 Dialect #2 Dialect #3

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Ancient Consonant Inventory

Initials

		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Post-Velar
Plosive	Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
	Suppressed	p'	t'		k'
	Voiced	b	d		g *
Nasal	Unvoiced	m̊	n̊		ŋ̊
	Voiced	m	n		ŋ
Fricative	Unvoiced	ɸ *	s			h
	Voiced	v	z *			ɦ *
Sonorant	Unvoiced	ẘ *	l̥ r̊	j̊ *
	Voiced	w	l r	j

Possible sound changes (might be in #Old Consonant Inventory, might be after)

• g later merges with ɦ
• ɦ and h later merge in some circumstances
• ɸ and ẘ merge and become h- before back rounded vowels and w- before all others
• s and z merge
• j̊ and j merge, except before high-front vowels, where j̊ becomes h-