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===Development of Niemish proper=== | ===Development of Niemish proper=== | ||
==== | ====Development of nasal vowels==== | ||
Wherever a nasal consonant occurred word-finally or before a spirant in Post-Gothic, it disappeared in favour of nasalisation of the previous vowel. The length of the vowel was not affected. | |||
*Post-Got. ''dagam'' → ''dagą'' | |||
Nasals that formed the end of a root, as in ''háim-s'' and ''aljan-'' were either not lost or more likely restored by analogy with forms with inflectional endings; the Niemish descendants of these words are ''ham'' and ''älin''. | |||
====S-retraction==== | |||
Much like Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages (and to an extent High German), Niemish retracted ''s'' /s/ to ''sz'' /ʃ/ before and after /r, w, uː, j, iː/: | Much like Slavic and Indo-Iranian languages (and to an extent High German), Niemish retracted ''s'' /s/ to ''sz'' /ʃ/ before and after /r, w, uː, j, iː/: | ||
*P-Gmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/barsaz#Proto-Germanic|*barsaz]]'' → ''barsz'' | *P-Gmc. ''[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/barsaz#Proto-Germanic|*barsaz]]'' → ''barsz'' | ||
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The Westlandic dialect underwent the law of open syllables: where possible, consonants in the syllable coda were resyllabified into the onset of the following syllable. Consequently, more syllables became analysed as open in Westlandic than in other dialects, and open syllable lengthening affected a greater number of words. It also has lost geminate consonants, although vowels before historic geminate consonants remain short. | The Westlandic dialect underwent the law of open syllables: where possible, consonants in the syllable coda were resyllabified into the onset of the following syllable. Consequently, more syllables became analysed as open in Westlandic than in other dialects, and open syllable lengthening affected a greater number of words. It also has lost geminate consonants, although vowels before historic geminate consonants remain short. | ||
The Capitoline dialect is a special case. It developed as | The Capitoline dialect is a special case. It developed as a koiné from numerous dialects in the capital. It is thus broadly similar to the standard, other than shortening historically long vowels before voiceless plosives (this is due to spelling pronunciation and hypercorrection) and loss of geminate consonants. | ||