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Schleicher envisaged a very simple phonology for his language, with a small number of consonants and vowels. In his analysis of vowels he was largely guided by the structure of Proto-Indo-Iranian; for consonants he postulated an even simpler system, perhaps suggested by Greek. | Schleicher envisaged a very simple phonology for his language, with a small number of consonants and vowels. In his analysis of vowels he was largely guided by the structure of Proto-Indo-Iranian; for consonants he postulated an even simpler system, perhaps suggested by Greek. | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Schleicher's vowels show contrasts in height (±high) and backness (±back). There are also two series of short and long diphthongs based on the short vowels; a lengthened a | Schleicher's vowels show contrasts in height (±high) and backness (±back). There are also two series of short and long diphthongs based on the short vowels; a lengthened a is treated as a diphthong. The long a is written <â> in Schleicher's ''Compendium'', and that usage is followed here, but it is <ā> in the first printing of Schleicher's fable. | ||
There are three simple vowels, /i/ (+high, -back), /a/ (-high, +back), and /u/ (+high, +back), from which the short and long diphthongs are derived in two ascending grades, comparable to Sanskrit's guṇa and vṛddhi grades. | |||
{|class="wikitable" | |||
!Simple vowel | |||
!First grade | |||
!Second grade | |||
|- | |||
|i | |||
|ai | |||
|âi | |||
|- | |||
|a | |||
|aa = â | |||
|âa = â | |||
|- | |||
|u | |||
|au | |||
|âu | |||
|} | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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