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==Major Changes from Old Valthungian Middle Valthungian== | ==Major Changes from Old Valthungian Middle Valthungian== | ||
===Defenestration of Greek Fricatives=== | ===Defenestration of Greek Fricatives=== | ||
By approximately 1250 or possibly earlier, spirantized '''b''' [β] had come to be realized as [v], and its unvoiced counterpart, '''f''', which ''may'' have been realized as [ɸ] in Proto-Germanic, Gothic, Griutungi, and possibly Old Valthungian, became definitively realized as [f]. Meanwhile the previously spirantized '''g''' [ɣ] had reverted to its non-continuant form and merged with [ɡ]. According to a document recently discovered in an attic in Padua, shortly after these changes were complete, the now-useless Greek letters were gathered up and cast out of a high window into the Piave by an angry Bishop who had spent most of his career decrying the evils of feta. | |||
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| || '''β'''|| →|| '''v''' | |||
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| || '''ɸ'''|| →|| '''f''' | |||
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| || '''ɣ'''|| →|| '''ɡ''' | |||
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===Vowel Tensing=== | ===Vowel Tensing=== | ||
===Rhotacism Fail=== | ===Rhotacism Fail=== | ||