2,334
edits
Meskangela: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Consonants
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
| Line 276: | Line 276: | ||
*/pʰ/ was a marginal phoneme in Classical Meskangela, it became more common in the Western dialects and disappeared in Southern Meskangela. | */pʰ/ was a marginal phoneme in Classical Meskangela, it became more common in the Western dialects and disappeared in Southern Meskangela. | ||
*/ɥ/ was a separate phoneme in Old Meskangela and had remained distinct from /j/ at least by the early classical period. In dialects with metaphony it likely survived longer, resulting in the rounding of preceding vowels. | */ɥ/ was a separate phoneme in Old Meskangela and had remained distinct from /j/ at least by the early classical period. In dialects with metaphony it likely survived longer, resulting in the rounding of preceding vowels. | ||
The aspirated consonant series likely developed from certain consonant clusters in Proto-Meskangela. Classical Meskangela allows very few initial consonant clusters, which may be expained by their merging into single consonants, thus making the aspiration contrast phonemic. The Inner Eastern dialect later lost this distinction, instead adding a high tone contrast to following vowels. Although a full set of aspirated consonants is shown in the table above, it was likely that some of these phonemes were marginal, appearing only in few words or under exceptional conditions. | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||