Moshurian dialects: Difference between revisions

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(Created page with "Due to the large amount of speakers of Moshurian, regional variations of the language have developed over centuries of history. ==Specific phenomena== ===N-Schwa shift=== The '''N-Schwa shift''', also called the '''Àrenàk shift''',(Moshurian: ''gélakh àrenàk'') refers to the historical(and ongoing) phonological shift of the Moshurian /ə̃/ phoneme, called the ''àrenàk''([ə̃ˈɽɛn.ə̃k]) natively and the "n-schwa" among Anglophone...")
 
 
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* From /ð/ → [θ](Western) or [ð](Eastern)
* From /ð/ → [θ](Western) or [ð](Eastern)
* From /x/ → [ʁ](Western) or [χ](Eastern)
* From /x/ → [ʁ](Western) or [χ](Eastern)
* In diphthong C̥V → /ʔV/.
* /e/ and /i/ merge into [e~i]. Western speakers lean towards [i] more often than [e], while Eastern speakers do the opposite. However, morphological distinction breaks down in both cases, as in:
* /e/ and /i/ merge into [e~i]. Western speakers lean towards [i] more often than [e], while Eastern speakers do the opposite.
** ''uthilikh'' → anything between [uθeliʁ] to [uðileχ]


===Odezyë dialect===
===Odezyë dialect===
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