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===Proto-Burunking=== | |||
====Consonants==== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|- | |||
! width="200px;" | Nasal | |||
| width="100px;" | '''m''' [m] || width="100px;" | '''n''' [n] || width="100px;" | || width="100px;" | | |||
|- | |||
! Aspirated Stop | |||
| '''p''' [pʰ] || '''t''' [tʰ] || '''k''' [kʰ] || | |||
|- | |||
! Unaspirated Stop | |||
| '''b''' [b] || '''d''' [d] || '''g''' [g] || | |||
|- | |||
! Fricative | |||
| || '''s''' [s] || || '''h''' [h] | |||
|- | |||
! Liquid | |||
| || '''l''' [l] <br> '''r''' [r] || || | |||
|} | |||
====Vowels==== | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" | |||
|- | |||
! width="200px;" | High | |||
| width="100px;" | '''i''' [i] || width="100px;" | '''u''' [u] | |||
|- | |||
! width="200px;" | Mid | |||
| '''e''' [e] || '''o''' [o] | |||
|- | |||
! width="200px;" | Low | |||
| '''a''' [a] || | |||
|} | |||
====Phonotactics==== | |||
In the earliest period the minimal syllable structure was a single vowel. The maximal structure was: | |||
:: sC<sub>1</sub>VC<sub>2</sub>s | |||
* Syllables could begin with any single consonant or ''sp, sk, st''. | |||
* V could be any vowel. | |||
* Syllables could end with single ''l, r, n, s'' or complex ''ls, rs, ns''. | |||
Several early processes changed this situation: | |||
* Initial ''sp, sk, st'' and final ''ps, ks, ts'' became ''z'' [s] while ''s'' was [s̟]. | |||
* ''h'' was lost leading to the development of long vowels and diphthongs. This initially appears to have occurred between a non-high vowel and a high vowel, leading to the development of ''ai, au, ei, eu, oi'' which were later monophthongised. After ''lh, nh, rh'' became ''ll, nn, rr''. | |||
* The syllable-final consonants ''l, n, r, s, z'' altered in word-final and pre-consonantal position, becoming ''i, ng, z, sh, s'' in the former and ''u, n, -, i, -'' in the latter. | |||
===Syllables=== | ===Syllables=== | ||
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