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==General characteristics== | ==General characteristics== | ||
While quite similar to the Dhannic languages in many aspects, there are | While quite similar to the Dhannic languages in many aspects, there are some striking differences. One of the most noticeable is the shifting of several inherited stops from Finio-Dhannic. In Finian, this development first described by Indo-European linguist Berthold von Walden manifests in its earliest stages as a fricativization of the unvoiced stops, while the voiced stops series devoice thus taking their places. Cf. the reconstructed Proto-Lúsanic *pen-ja-r-os with Finian ''finyarar'' ('that which is of the bog', 'bog-y') and its Dhannuán cognate ''penniaros'' which does not display the consonant shift (retaining ''p''). | ||
This can be summarised as the following set of changes (note that each phoneme takes a step right) | |||
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>b → p → f (through intermediary ɸ) | |||
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>d → t → s (through intermediary θ?) | |||
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>g → k → h (through intermediary x) | |||
Finian also has no breathy-voiced consonants; “aspiration” appears to have been lost producing new voiced stops; a development which seems to have appeared after von Walden's law. | |||
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>bʰ → b | |||
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>dʰ → d | |||
:<nowiki>*</nowiki>gʰ → g | |||
Many of the idiosyncrasies of Finian have to do with the resulting development of these newly produced stops. Generally, these stops undergo fricativization resulting in the voiced fricatives /β/ and /ɣ/. Some dialects though, appear to have replaced /β/ with /v/ as in /'valor/, attested from inscriptions as {{smallcaps|uualor}}. | |||
One relatively strange change is the change of this /d/ to /l/ in the beginning of words. Although seemingly strange, it is not unparalleled with a similar development in Latin, cf. Finian ''lanag'', Latin ''lingua'', Dhannuá ''dhannuá'', Irish ''teanga'' and reconstructed Proto-Indo-European '''*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s'''. | |||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:Lúsanic_languages]] | [[Category:Lúsanic_languages]] |