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Galanego undergone a mixture of both Celtic and Vulgar Latin sound changes. While its lexicon evolved from their nominative forms, not oblique form as its Latin neibours. | Galanego undergone a mixture of both Celtic and Vulgar Latin sound changes. While its lexicon evolved from their nominative forms, not oblique form as its Latin neibours. | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
'''Short vowels''' | |||
{|class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
!rowspan=2|Proto-Celtic | |||
!rowspan=2|Condition | |||
!rowspan=2|Old Galega | |||
!rowspan=2|Late Galega | |||
! rowspan="2" |Old Cornish | |||
! rowspan="2" |Middle Cornish | |||
! rowspan="2" |Late Cornish | |||
!colspan=6|Example | |||
|- | |||
!Proto-Celtic | |||
!Old Galega | |||
!Late Galega | |||
!Translation | |||
!Late Breton | |||
!Late Welsh | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
'''Long vowels and dipthongs''' | |||
{|class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
!rowspan=2|Proto-Celtic | |||
!rowspan=2|Condition | |||
!rowspan=2|Old Galega | |||
!rowspan=2|Late Galega | |||
!colspan=6|Example | |||
|- | |||
!Proto-Celtic | |||
!Old Galega | |||
!Late Galega | |||
!Translation | |||
!Late Breton | |||
!Late Welsh | |||
|- | |||
|ī | |||
|all places | |||
|i | |||
|rowspan="4" |i | |||
|līwos | |||
|liwo | |||
|livo | |||
|"colour" m. | |||
|liv | |||
|lliw | |||
|} | |||
Galanego vowels presents following features: | Galanego vowels presents following features: | ||
* Galanego doesn't have diphthongization in open and closed syllables as in Portuguese and Catalan. | * Galanego doesn't have diphthongization in open and closed syllables as in Portuguese and Catalan. | ||
* Galanego once has /y/, also written as "y" before 9th century, but this vowel finally merged with /i/. | * Galanego once has /y/, also written as "y" before 9th century, but this vowel finally merged with /i/. | ||
* Only final a & i vowel affection are affective in Galanego compared to modern Celtic languages. | * Only final a & i vowel affection are affective in Galanego compared to modern Celtic languages. |
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