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Classical Windermere had breathy voiced vowels '''à è ì ò ù ǜ''' /aʱ eʱ iʱ oʱ uʱ yʱ/ which became '''ä ea ie oa ua üe''' in Middle Windermere. | Classical Windermere had breathy voiced vowels '''à è ì ò ù ǜ''' /aʱ eʱ iʱ oʱ uʱ yʱ/ which became '''ä ea ie oa ua üe''' in Middle Windermere. | ||
Classical Windermere had more vowel contrasts in preinitial syllables: it had two reduced vowels, '''ă''' /ə/ and '''i''' /ɪ/, which merged to '''ă''' in Classical Windermere. This contrast is retained in [[Pradiul]] as palatalization. | |||
==Morphophonology== | ==Morphophonology== | ||
===Sandhi=== | ===Sandhi=== | ||
Classical Windermere had a complex sandhi system (somewhere between Biblical Hebrew and Sanskrit) which was no longer productive in Classical Windermere; most notably it affected plurals and verb forms, making them less predictable. | |||
*fth, fch > -pt-, -pc- | *fth, fch > -pt-, -pc- | ||
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Classical Windermere had many irregular plurals due to the effects of sandhi. | |||
Examples: | Examples: | ||
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*''ha-'' (passive) | *''ha-'' (passive) | ||
Classical Windermere also used breathy voice ablaut to denote tools: ''snar'' (capture) -> ''snàr'' (trap, snare) which survives in Modern Windermere as ''snär''. | |||
[[Category:Windermere]] | [[Category:Windermere]] | ||