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===Tone=== | ===Tone=== | ||
There are three phonemic [[w:tone|tone]]s in Lha asáari, the '''high''' | There are three phonemic [[w:tone|tone]]s in Lha asáari, the '''high''', '''medium''', or '''default''', and the '''low''' tone. The tones have immense effects on the qualities of the vowels. | ||
*Short and long vowels with the high tone are pronounced with a glottal closure, that is, a coda glottal stop, /ʔ/. The long vowels are diphthongised - this is the sole trace of the homogeneous diphthongs. | *Short and long vowels with the high tone are pronounced with a glottal closure, that is, a coda glottal stop, /ʔ/. The long vowels are diphthongised - this is the sole trace of the homogeneous diphthongs. | ||
*Low tone vowels are nasalised. This nasalisation is phonetically marked with a superscript minuscule "n", so that the nasalisation marking does not coincide with the tone diacritics. | *Low tone vowels are nasalised. This nasalisation is phonetically marked with a superscript minuscule "n", so that the nasalisation marking does not coincide with the tone diacritics. | ||
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===Phonological processes=== | |||
Apart from the low tone vowels being nasalised, and the diphthongs collapsing into long vowels, Asaari has a few other compulsory phonological changes. | |||
====Emphatic consonants==== | |||
The term '''emphatic''' is a controversial one but refers to a certain form of assimilation in the Asaari language. Following high tone vowels, fricative consonants and /ʁ/ change their pronunciation. | |||
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|+'''Asaari emphatics and finals''' | |||
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! colspan="8"|Phonological changes | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
!ph | |||
!th | |||
!s | |||
!lh | |||
!sh | |||
!h | |||
!r | |||
|- | |||
! Plain | |||
|/ɸ/ | |||
|/θ/ | |||
|/s/ | |||
|/ɬ/ | |||
|/ç/ | |||
|/h/ | |||
|/ʁ ~ ʀ/ | |||
|- | |||
!Emphatic | |||
|[p͡ɸ] | |||
|[t͡θ] | |||
|[t͡s] | |||
|[t͡ɬ] | |||
|[ɕ] | |||
|[χ] | |||
|[ɣ] | |||
|- | |||
!Final | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
|[h] | |||
|[r] | |||
|} | |||
====No audible release==== | |||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||