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===Allophony=== | ===Allophony=== | ||
*Spirants and plosives with the same place of articulation merge and become geminated voiced plosives | *Spirants and plosives with the same place of articulation merge and become geminated voiced plosives | ||
:: [βp] → [bː]<br/><br/> | |||
* Spirants undergo fortition, becoming voiced plosives, when adjacent to plosives with a different place of articulation or nasals | * Spirants undergo fortition, becoming voiced plosives, when adjacent to plosives with a different place of articulation or nasals | ||
:: [ðn] → [dn] | |||
:: [tɣ] → [tg]<br/><br/> | |||
* A voiced spirant is added between a nasal and the alveolar flap, corresponding to the same place of articulation as the nasal | * A voiced spirant is added between a nasal and the alveolar flap, corresponding to the same place of articulation as the nasal | ||
::[nɾ] → [nðɾ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The velar spirant merges with the preceding vowel into a voiceless vowel before a consonant | * The velar spirant merges with the preceding vowel into a voiceless vowel before a consonant | ||
::[ehn] → [e̥n]<br/><br/> | |||
* The alveolar voiced spirant undergoes fortition before the lateral fricative and... | * The alveolar voiced spirant undergoes fortition before the lateral fricative and... | ||
* The lateral fricative becomes a lateral release after an alveolar plosive | * The lateral fricative becomes a lateral release after an alveolar plosive | ||
::[ðl] → [dl] → [dˡ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The alveolar and velar nasals merge with the palatal glide to form a palatal nasal | * The alveolar and velar nasals merge with the palatal glide to form a palatal nasal | ||
::[nj] → [ɲ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The alveolar sibilant merges with the palatal glide into a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant | * The alveolar sibilant merges with the palatal glide into a voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant | ||
:: [sj] → [ʃ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The velar spirant and the palatal glide merge into a voiceless palatal-velar fricative | * The velar spirant and the palatal glide merge into a voiceless palatal-velar fricative | ||
::[hj] → [ɧ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The velar spirant and the labiovelar glide merge into a voiceless labiovelar approximant | * The velar spirant and the labiovelar glide merge into a voiceless labiovelar approximant | ||
::[hw] → [ʍ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The labiovelar glide turns into labialization after a voiced velar plosive or spirant | * The labiovelar glide turns into labialization after a voiced velar plosive or spirant | ||
::[ɣw] → [ɣʷ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The palatal glide becomes a voiced palatal fricative word-initially | * The palatal glide becomes a voiced palatal fricative word-initially | ||
::[∅j] → [ʝ]<br/><br/> | |||
* The labiovelar glide becomes a labiodental approximant word-initially | * The labiovelar glide becomes a labiodental approximant word-initially | ||
::[∅w] → [ʋ] | |||
===Ortography=== | ===Ortography=== | ||