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===Vowel Lengthening=== | ===Vowel Lengthening=== | ||
====Lengthening of Word-Final Stressed Vowels==== | ====Lengthening of Word-Final Stressed Vowels==== | ||
Vowel lengthening applies mainly to monosyllabic function words such as articles, pronouns, and prepositions. | |||
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''“Stressed short vowels become long when word-final.”'' | |||
E.g. ''bi'', ''þu'', ''sa'' → ''bī'', ''þū'', ''sā'' | |||
====Lengthening of /ij/==== | ====Lengthening of /ij/==== | ||
All instances of '''ij''' become lengthened. (More accurately, '''ij''' becomes '''ī''', and then the persistent glide-insertion rule immediately restores '''j''' before a following vowel, but it's simpler to just say that '''ij''' becomes '''īj'''.) | |||
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| '''i''' | |||
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| '''ī''' | |||
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| ___ '''j''' | |||
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''“'''I''' is lengthened before '''j'''.”'' | |||
===Ī/J-Umlaut=== | ===Ī/J-Umlaut=== | ||
===Palatalization of /z/=== | ===Palatalization of /z/=== | ||