Eastern Voþken

Introduction

Eastern Voþken is a daughter of Voþken that came as a result of the isolation between the western and eastern divide after the Fire Rebellion.

Phonology

Consonants

		Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Post Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/		t /t/				k /k/
	voiced	b /b/		d /d/				g /g/
	Aspirated	p [pʰ]*		t [tʰ]*				k [kʰ]*
Nasal		m /m/		n /n/
Fricative	voiceless		f /f/	þ /θ/	s /s/	c /ʃ/		h /x/
	voiced		v /v/	ð /ð/	s [z]*
Approximant				r /ɹ/			y /j/
Lateral Approximant				l /l/
Affricate				tj/tc /t͡ʃ/

*allophone

Vowels

	Front		Central	Back	Diphthongs
Close	y [i]*
Near-Close	i /ɪ/	ü /ʏ/		u /ʊ/
Close-Mid					ei/ey /ej/
Mid			e/a [ə]*
Open-Mid	e /ɛ/	o /œ/			oi/oy /ɔɪ/
Near-Open	a /æ/
Open	a [a]*				ai/ay /aj/

*allophone

Phonotactics

Allowed Syllables

• (C)(C)V(C)(C)

Consonant Clusters Word Initial

• [fricative]+[nasal,liquid,stop]
• [stop]+[nasal,liquid,fricative]

Word Internal

Word Final

• [fricative]+[stop]
• [stop]+[fricative]
• /m/+/b/
• /n/+[stop,excluding /b/]

Phonological Rules

• /ɛ/ > [ə] / _#
• /s/ > [z] / $_[voiced consonant]
• /s/ > [z] / [voiced consonant]_$
• /ʊ/ > [ɔ] / _/j/
• /j/ > [ɪ] / [ɔ]
• /j/ > [i] / [consonant] _#
• /æ/ > [a] / _/j/$
• [+stop -voiced] > [+aspiration] / #_[vowel]
• /n/ > [n̩] / [any consonant except approximants]

Eastern Sound Changes

First Wave

• [+stop -voiced] > [+aspiration] / #_[vowel]
• [ɛ] > [œ] / $_[w]
• /t/ > [c] / _/j/
• /t/ > [t͡ʃ] / _$/ʃ/
• /ʃ/ > ∅ / [t]$_
• [æ] > [ə] / _#
• /ʊ/ > [u]
• [ɛ] > [ə] / _[n]#
• /y/ > ∅ / [consonant] _ [consonant]

Second Wave

• /w/ > ∅ / [vowel]_$
• [c] > [t͡ʃ]
• [ə] > ∅ / _#
• /n/ > [n̩] / [ə]_#
• [ə] > ∅ / _[n]#
• [+close +vowel] > [-close +near close]
• /u/ > [y] / /j/_$
• /j/ > ∅ / _/u/