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| === Sound changes from Old Katäfalsen ===
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| A lot of the complexity of Katäfalsen arises out of the sound changes from Old to Modern Katäfalsen. So it is reasonable to consider these before occupying oneself with morphological processes in Modern Katäfalsen. In the following, we shall leave the exact pronunciations out of consideration.
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| Old Katäfalsen had six vowel phonemes: {{IPA|/ɑ, i, u, ɑː, iː, uː/}}. The consonant inventory was very similar to Modern Katäfalsen but had two additional phonemes {{IPA|/ħ/}} and {{IPA|/ʔ/}}. In contrast to Modern Katäfalsen, the syllable structure was KV(K), i.e. onsets were mandatory. Due to previous loss of word final vowels, words always had to end with a consonant, the only exception being word final {{IPA|/ɑ/}}.
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| The sound changes took place in different phases:
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| '''Phase 1''': Loss of geminated consonants
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| |CC > ħC
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| '''Phase 2''': Lowering of short vowels, loss of word final ɑ, fusion of syllable final ħ, j, w
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| |i > e
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| |iː / iħ / iy / iːħ / iːy > i
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| |u > o
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| |uː / uħ / uw / uːħ / uːw > u
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| |ɑħ / ɑːħ > ɑː
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| |ɑːj > ɑj
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| |ɑːw > ɑw
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| |iw / uy / iːw / uːy > y
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| |ɑ > ∅ (word final)
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| '''Phase 3''': Loss of ħ and ʔ
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| === Stress and intonation === | | === Stress and intonation === |