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* /aɪ̯/ is often pronounced as [æɪ̯] in large parts of the Chlouvānem world, notably virtually all of the North, Northeast, East, and Far East, and large parts of the Near East, but not in most of the Plain or in the Jade Coast. Word-final, unstressed /aɪ̯/, which quite often is a plural marker, is merged with /ɛ/ in many areas of the Southern Far East. | * /aɪ̯/ is often pronounced as [æɪ̯] in large parts of the Chlouvānem world, notably virtually all of the North, Northeast, East, and Far East, and large parts of the Near East, but not in most of the Plain or in the Jade Coast. Word-final, unstressed /aɪ̯/, which quite often is a plural marker, is merged with /ɛ/ in many areas of the Southern Far East. | ||
The variants of Chlouvānem spoken by the Chlouvānem minorities in Kŭyŭgwažtov, | The variants of Chlouvānem spoken by the Chlouvānem minorities in Kŭyŭgwažtov, Soenjŏ-tave, and other countries of the former Kaiṣamā have acquired, through language contact, the front rounded vowels /y ø/ - they are present in loans from the majority languages of those areas (cf. in Kŭyŭgwaž Chlouvānem ''köndegura'' /køndeguʀa/ "mountain road", ''nüvka'' /nyʋka/ (a typical dish) < Kŭy. ''köndŭgŭr'', ''nüvŭk''; the latter is known as ''nivka'' /niʋka/ in the Inquisition), as well as in peculiar sound changes from the standard pronunciation. | ||
===Phonological history=== | ===Phonological history=== | ||