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¹ When previous consonant is palatalized. | ¹ When previous consonant is palatalized. | ||
===Morphophonologu=== | |||
====Lenition==== | |||
When a word ending in a voiceless stop or fricative has a vowel-initial suffix added, the final consonant becomes a voiced fricative. This is known as lenition. | |||
Not all such words undergo lenition. Whether a word undergoes lenition or not is predictable from its orthography. | |||
The table below summarizes the consonants that can undergo lenition. | |||
{|class=wikitable style=text-align: center | |||
|+ Word-final consonants that can undergo lenition | |||
! rowspan="2"| Phoneme !! colspan="2" |Unlenited form !! colspan="3"| Lenited form !! colspan="2"| Non-leniting equivalent | |||
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! Eagelstaiv !! Djenstæf !! IPA !! Eagelstaiv !! Djenstæf !! Eagelstaiv !! Djenstæf | |||
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| p || -p || -p || rowspan="2"| v || rowspan="2"| v || rowspan="2"| v || pp || pp | |||
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| f || v || f || f || ff | |||
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| t || t || t || rowspan="2"|ð || rowspan="2"|dh || rowspan="2"|ð || tt || tt | |||
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| θ || dh || þ || th || þþ | |||
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| s || z || s || z || z || z || s || ss | |||
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| ʃ || zh || c || ʒ || zh || cz || sh || cc, sc | |||
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| k || k || k || rowspan="2"| ∅ || rowspan="2"| ∅ || rowspan="2"|∅ || ck || kk | |||
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| x || gh || h || ch || hh | |||
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