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====Palatalisation==== | ====Palatalisation==== | ||
Palatalisation is an allophonic process whereby certain consonants are affected by a following ''i''. This mainly affects the sonorants ''l'', ''n'' and ''r'', which are altered to their secondary form, and the letters ''d'' and ''t'' which become ''ẑ'' and ''ŝ'' respectively. For example, ''dana'' "gift", pl. ''dańi'', ''cata'' "pool", pl. ''caŝi''. | Palatalisation is an allophonic process whereby certain consonants are affected by a following ''i''. This mainly affects the sonorants ''l'', ''n'' and ''r'', which are altered to their secondary form, and the letters ''d'' and ''t'' which become ''ẑ'' and ''ŝ'' respectively. For example, ''dana'' "gift", pl. ''dańi'', ''cata'' "pool", pl. ''caŝi''. | ||
A summary of Iotised and Palatalised consonants is given below: | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" text-align:center;" | |||
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! " colspan="5;"| Stops | |||
! " colspan="3;"| Fricatives | |||
! " colspan="5;"| Sonorants | |||
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! style="width: 100px; "| Primary | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''b'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''t'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''d'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''c'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''g'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''v'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''s'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''z'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''j'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''l'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center" | ''m'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''n'' | |||
| style="width: 35px; " align="center"| ''r'' | |||
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! style="width: 100px; "| Iotised | |||
| align="center"| ''bj'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ć'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ǵ'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ć'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ǵ'' | |||
| align="center"| ''j'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ś'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ź'' | |||
| align="center"| | |||
| align="center"| ''ł'' | |||
| align="center"| ''mj'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ń'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ŕ'' | |||
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! style="width: 100px; "| Palatalised | |||
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| align="center"| ''ŝ'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ẑ'' | |||
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| align="center"| ''ł'' | |||
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| align="center"| ''ń'' | |||
| align="center"| ''ŕ'' | |||
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====Alternation of ''j/i'' and ''v/u''==== | ====Alternation of ''j/i'' and ''v/u''==== | ||