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== History == | == History == | ||
The oldest attested stage of Thean, called Old Thean, uses a logography. The history of Classical Thean begins with the publication and spread of [some religious text; some form of Buddhism I guess] in a phonetic orthography and the rhyming prose tales of [author]. This switch to a phonetic orthography was incentivized by the introduction of the printing press. | The oldest attested stage of Thean, called Old Thean, uses a logography. The history of Classical Thean begins with the publication and spread of [some religious text; some form of Buddhism I guess] in a phonetic orthography and the rhyming prose tales of [author]. This switch to a phonetic orthography was incentivized by the introduction of the printing press. | ||
=== Diachronics === | |||
==== Stressed vowels ==== | |||
* Proto-Theic a -> o after kʷ-series consonants, e after kʸ-series ones, a otherwise | |||
* Proto-Theic ã -> a | |||
* Proto-Theic i -> e | |||
* Proto-Theic ī -> i | |||
* Proto-Theic u -> o | |||
* Proto-Theic ū -> u | |||
== Classical Thean phonology == | == Classical Thean phonology == | ||