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In Old Eyalian there was also a dissimilatory process which involved a lenis consonant followed by another lenis consonant in the next syllable. In this position the first consonant strengthened. However, the conditions of this process are not well understood. Certain consonants, like *r, and *m did not trigger this process, while *q (which by those time had probably become [ʔ]) did. An example of such process is ''*jibe-'' > ''ceuni'' "to shine" (instead of the expected ''**heuni''), while other languages have a regular reflexes (Kianne - ''siū''). | In Old Eyalian there was also a dissimilatory process which involved a lenis consonant followed by another lenis consonant in the next syllable. In this position the first consonant strengthened. However, the conditions of this process are not well understood. Certain consonants, like *r, and *m did not trigger this process, while *q (which by those time had probably become [ʔ]) did. An example of such process is ''*jibe-'' > ''ceuni'' "to shine" (instead of the expected ''**heuni''), while other languages have a regular reflexes (Kianne - ''siū''). | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Eyalian monophthongs are represented in tables below. Vowel qualities may vary from dialect to dialect, but in general Tarnan has two more monophthongs than Keian. Certain words in Tarnan are written with "y" (mostly loanwords and placenames), the high standard pronunciation of which is [ɪ] or even [ɘ], but it is commonly pronounced as either [e] or [i]. The latter is also the common pronunciation of this vowel in Keian, which has "i" in those words. For example, one of Tarnan provinces is named ''Vyzi'' (after ''vyś'' - a person from Vyzi), which is usually pronounced as either [ˈʋi.θi] or [ˈʋe.θi]. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;" | |||
|+caption | Tar Ejale | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! Front | |||
! Back | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Close | |||
| i, (y) /i/ | |||
| u | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Close-Mid | |||
| ė, y /e/ | |||
| ȯ /o/ | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Open-Mid | |||
| e /ɛ/ | |||
| o /ɔ/ | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Open | |||
| | |||
| a /ɑ/ | |||
|} | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;" | |||
|+caption | Kei Ejale | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! Front | |||
! Back | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Close | |||
| i | |||
| u | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Mid | |||
| e /e/ | |||
| o /o/ | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Open | |||
| | |||
| a /ä/ | |||
|} | |||
{| class="wikitable floatright" | |||
|+caption | Major vowel changes in Eyalian | |||
|- | |||
! colspan=2| Old Qenan | |||
! Tar Eyalian | |||
! Kei Eyalian | |||
! Position | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| rowspan=3 | *ā | |||
| → | |||
| o | |||
| ai | |||
| after low vowels | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| → | |||
| oa | |||
| ei | |||
| after high vowels | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| → | |||
| o | |||
| a | |||
| final | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| *å | |||
| → | |||
| ȯ | |||
| (v)o | |||
| everywhere | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| *ē | |||
| → | |||
| ea | |||
| (j)a | |||
| everywhere | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| *ō | |||
| → | |||
| oa | |||
| (j)o | |||
| everywhere | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| rowspan=2 | *ī | |||
| → | |||
| ie | |||
| (j)ai | |||
| initial, medial | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| → | |||
| i | |||
| i | |||
| final | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| rowspan=2 | *ū | |||
| → | |||
| uo | |||
| au | |||
| initial, medial | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
| → | |||
| u | |||
| u | |||
| final | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
Long vowels underwent diphthongization very early, but yielded different results in Kei and Tar Eyalian; however, the vowel "ā" merged with "ō" in Tarnan first, but remained distinct in Keian. Eyalian short vowels also underwent assimilation, called ''hiemlata'' ("becoming similar"). A short high vowel lowered to a close-mid one before low vowels, for example: ''jėkar'' "you have gone", but ''jiki'' "you go" from ''jikki'' "to go". In Keian this change was often levelled by analogy in almost all verbs and in some nouns. Suffixes which trigger consonant gemination usually block this change, for example ''fulla'' "breathing" has "u" instead of an expected "ȯ". | |||
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