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Broad Sairstír Celinese has a somewhat more complex vowel inventory than Standard Elithoan Celinese, but it does share some important divergent traits with other Celinese varieties. Like most varieties of Circassír Celinese, it is differentiates soft and hard pronunciations of <c> and <g>; it is one of the major varieties - alongside some Laurien and Western Islands dialects - that features patalalisation of liquids and fricatives in certain environments. It is also one of the very few Celinese varieties to have both word-initial and word-final affricates. | Broad Sairstír Celinese has a somewhat more complex vowel inventory than Standard Elithoan Celinese, but it does share some important divergent traits with other Celinese varieties. Like most varieties of Circassír Celinese, it is differentiates soft and hard pronunciations of <c> and <g>; it is one of the major varieties - alongside some Laurien and Western Islands dialects - that features patalalisation of liquids and fricatives in certain environments. It is also one of the very few Celinese varieties to have both word-initial and word-final affricates. | ||
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* The vowel in stressed syllable that is open or marked with a circumflex or acute accent is almost always pronounce long. Compare ''lena'' (inside) - [ˈlɛna] in Elithoan but [ˈlʲeːˌnɒ] in Sairstírian - or ''wylo'' (wave), [ˈwɪlɔ] in SEC but [ˈvʲyːlo̝] in SSG. | * The vowel in stressed syllable that is open or marked with a circumflex or acute accent is almost always pronounce long. Compare ''lena'' (inside) - [ˈlɛna] in Elithoan but [ˈlʲeːˌnɒ] in Sairstírian - or ''wylo'' (wave), [ˈwɪlɔ] in SEC but [ˈvʲyːlo̝] in SSG. | ||
* Whilst by convention they are denoted as being pure vowels, [e ɨ ʉ o] are in many dialects usually diphthongised as [ei̯ ɨi̯ ʉu̯ ou̯], particularly in the cities of the southern triangle - compare northern SSG lôn [lõː(n)] with southern [loʊn]. | * Whilst by convention they are denoted as being pure vowels, [e ɨ ʉ o] are in many dialects usually diphthongised as [ei̯ ɨi̯ ʉu̯ ou̯], particularly in the cities of the southern triangle - compare northern SSG lôn [lõː(n)] with southern [loʊn]. | ||
== The noun == | |||
== Sound correspondences with Standard Elithoan Celinese == | == Sound correspondences with Standard Elithoan Celinese == | ||
* '''mh:''' <mh> in Middle Southern Elithoan became <f> [f~v] in Elithoan Celinese, but became [ʍ] in initial position and [m] elsewhere in most Sairstír Celinese varieties. Compare SEC ''sofen'' with SSG. ''somman'', ''hwair'' with ''fair'', ''hwyðí'' to ''fyðí'' ''syfoth'' with '' | * '''mh:''' <mh> in Middle Southern Elithoan became <f> [f~v] in Elithoan Celinese, but became [ʍ] in initial position and [m] elsewhere in most Sairstír Celinese varieties. Compare SEC ''sofen'' with SSG. ''somman'', ''hwair'' with ''fair'', ''hwyðí'' to ''fyðí'' ''syfoth'' with ''symoth'', and ''lefrë'' with ''lemra''. | ||
* '''ɣ:''' Early Elithoan Celinese's /ɣ/ became unvoiced <ch> ([x] and later [χ]) in SEC - but became silent in Sairstír, often having a lengthening effect on vowels before it. Compare EEC's ''oɣt'' (from) to SEC ''och'' and SSG ''ô'' (Soft Sairstírian: ''ôth'') or SEC ''sinocht'' (snow) to SSG ''synôth'' [ɕyˈno̝ː]. | * '''ɣ:''' Early Elithoan Celinese's /ɣ/ became unvoiced <ch> ([x] and later [χ]) in SEC - but became silent in Sairstír, often having a lengthening effect on vowels before it. Compare EEC's ''oɣt'' (from) to SEC ''och'' and SSG ''ô'' (Soft Sairstírian: ''ôth'') or SEC ''sinocht'' (snow) to SSG ''synôth'' [ɕyˈno̝ː]. | ||
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* '''Word-final voicing:''' Unlike SEC, Sairstír Celinese does not allow for word-final unvoiced plosives - so the likes of SEC ''sop'', ''pyp'' and ''lofot'' become ''sob'', ''pyb'' and ''lowod.'' This means that feminine plurals, -ot in SEC, end in -d in SSG: compare ''séilot'' with ''sêlod'' (days) or ''mildot'' with ''mirdod'' (friends). | * '''Word-final voicing:''' Unlike SEC, Sairstír Celinese does not allow for word-final unvoiced plosives - so the likes of SEC ''sop'', ''pyp'' and ''lofot'' become ''sob'', ''pyb'' and ''lowod.'' This means that feminine plurals, -ot in SEC, end in -d in SSG: compare ''séilot'' with ''sêlod'' (days) or ''mildot'' with ''mirdod'' (friends). | ||
* '''Absence of affricate-fricative mergers:''' Compared to most Celinese varieties, Sairstír Celinese is rich in affricates. The /pf/-/f/ merger that affected nearly every other dialect did not impact SSG: thus, ''trefí'' (meet) [ | * '''Absence of affricate-fricative mergers:''' Compared to most Celinese varieties, Sairstír Celinese is rich in affricates. The /pf/-/f/ merger that affected nearly every other dialect did not impact SSG: thus, ''trefí'' (meet) [tʐ̊ɛˈfɨː] and trephí (fall) [tʐ̊ɛˈpfɨː] are distinguished. Many common words such as phancast (latter) and phechoth (fish) conserve initial /pf/. | ||
* '''ƍw:''' <ƍw> in Early Middle Southern Elithoan - believed to be pronounced [çʷ] or [ɕʷ] - became /χʷ/ <chw> or /ʍ/ <hw> in most Elithoan Celinese varieties, but became a delabialised [ɕ] in most environments in Sairstírian. Compare the Elithoan word for salt, ''chwor'' [χʷɔʐ], with SSg. ''seor'' [ɕɔʳ] or oak: SEC. ''hwaith'' [ʍai̯θ] and SSg. ''ceôth'' [ɕoːθ]. | |||
* '''Monophthongisation:''' By Middle Sairstíreg, the only diphthongs that had remained /ɑi̯ aʊ̯/, /ei̯ eʊ̯/ /oi̯ oʊ̯/ - became /ɑː/, /eː/ /oː/, a process reflected in the way in which these sounds were rewritten as â, ê and ô: ''nêl'', ''thôth'' and ''pafâch'' from ''neil'', ''thôuth'' and ''pafaich''. | |||