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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 speakers though, appear to have replaced /β/ with /v/ as in /' | 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 speakers though, appear to have replaced /β/ with /v/ as in /'vala:r/ ('flower') attested from inscriptions (there rendered as {{smallcaps|uualaar}}). | ||
One relatively strange change is the change of this new-found /d/ to /l/ in the beginning of words. Although seemingly strange, it is not unparalleled with a similar development in Latin, cf. Latin ''lingua'' and Irish ''teanga'' with their reconstructed Proto-Indo-European ancestor '''*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s'''. | One relatively strange change is the change of this new-found /d/ to /l/ in the beginning of words. Although seemingly strange, it is not unparalleled with a similar development in Latin, cf. Latin ''lingua'' and Irish ''teanga'' with their reconstructed Proto-Indo-European ancestor '''*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s'''. | ||
===Epenthesis=== | ===Epenthesis=== | ||
Like Dhannuá, Finian also exhibits anaptyxis (the addition of vowel sounds) but in more widespread environments. Finian does not appear to allow syllable onset clusters nor consonant clusters between word boundaries inserting a vowel to break these up (''a'', ''i''). Finian ''v'''a''' | Like Dhannuá, Finian also exhibits anaptyxis (the addition of vowel sounds) but in more widespread environments. Finian does not appear to allow syllable onset clusters nor consonant clusters between word boundaries inserting a vowel to break these up (''a'', ''i''). Finian ''v'''a'''lar'' "flower" is the typical example showing a-insertion between v and l, cf. Dhannuán ''bhlór'' with no intruding ''a''. A similar phenomenon appears to occur at word boundaries, when consonant-final words encounter another consonant right after an i-insertion occurs between them, as in the question ''ist an '''i'''sa mii'' (lit. 'is that at me?', "Do I have it?") with the ''i'' inserted before ''sa''. This does not occur in with ''sa'' but with ''mii'' in the answer: ''sa ist imii'' (lit. 'that one is at me', "I have it"). | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:Lúsanic_languages]] | [[Category:Lúsanic_languages]] | ||