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| i'm assuming the tones are like in Feisen
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| after the second creolization, Very Early Reber will have just 3 tones
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| falling, rising, low rising
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| much like the history of mandarin
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| Ø, t, s -> rising
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| f, v, l -> low rising
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| n, z, d, b -> falling
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| (the northern invaders supposedly influenced the language)
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| that means a lot of homophony which means a lot of compounding
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| yes
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| then the consonants
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| retros should be preserved (or should they merge with alveolars or uvulars?)
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| i might merge them with alveolopalatals
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| so it's a kind of Rebero-Feisic
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| Middle Wieb doesn't have alveolopalatals
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| they should merge
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| this is just the first stage
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| with alveolars
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| voiceless nasals merge with aspirated stops, retroflexes with alveolars, perhaps something happens to clicks as well
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| clicks simply soften!
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| so ! !h g! -> ɧ h ɧ̬
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| i prefer voiceless nasals > unaspirated stops
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| we need more of them
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| wine-whine merger, θ -> h; ð -> ɦ
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| yes
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| now, the vowels!
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| the monophthongs shouldn't be much of a problem
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| the closing diphthongs are more problematic
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| aiC, auC, ...
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| i:a ja -> ia
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| > èC, òC
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| yes
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| aiɐ auɐ oyɐ -> eɐ oɐ øɐ
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| actually i:a ja je -> ia
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| u:a wa wo -> ua ...
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| yes
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| ai au oy -> e o ø before stops and nasals
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| the only click phoneme left is the nasal click
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| so:
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| m n ŋ! ŋ ɴ
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| p t k q ʔ
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| pʰ tʰ kʰ qʰ
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| b d g ɢ
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| f s ɧ ɬ x χ h (ʂ merges with ɧ)
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| z ɧ̬ ɮ ɣ ʁ
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| w l
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| ʐ merges with ɧ̬
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| yes
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| vowels: ə: merges with ø:
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| again not sure about the vowels
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| so: ɑ e i o u y æ ø + long
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| + ei ou øy iə uə yə ea oa øa
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| (i have to redo AW > MW vowel changes again)
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| the voicing pairs aren't homophones yet
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| now there are 32 consonants in Very Early Reber
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| there should be a merger in the set /ɧ x χ h/
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| to get from that to Early Reber, i'm thinking of these changes:
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| ŋ ~ ɴ
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| ɧ~χ
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| yes
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| x~h?
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| no
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| satemization?
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| yes!
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| that works
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| k q ʔ -> tʃ k q -> ʃ k q
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| or ɕ k q
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| ʔ > q: really?
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| yes
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| to make it more distinct
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| no thanks, i think i'll keep ʔ - or drop it
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| actually maybe middle wieb has ʡ
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| i think i want to drop initial ʔ like mandarin
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| or maybe not, if neck thai and terg both ahve initial ʔ
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| then, a breathy voice epidemic!
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| p pʰ b f -> p pʰ bʰ f -> b p p f
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| yes
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| that doubles the number of tones
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| to 6
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| maybe i'll just have tʃ tʃʰ ʃ
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| or just tʃʰ > ʃ
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| before the tone split
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| tS tSh dZ S Z (after satemization)
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| tS dZ S Z (after merger)
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| tS tSh S (after tone split)
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| or maybe not, they can make affricates just fine
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| tS tSh dZ S Z (after satemization)
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| tS tSh S (after tone split)
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| tie languages and terg both have them
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| Ø, t, s
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| f, v, l
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| n, z, d, b
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| yo, those tonal categories aren't valid for middle wiebian!
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| they're partially allophonic
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| so it's really tone blaoighnity when the split comes along
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| sounds good
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| then the 6 should merge into 4
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| ==Phonology==
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| ===Consonants===
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| {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"
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| |+ '''{{PAGENAME}} initials'''
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| |-
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| ! colspan="2" |
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| ! |Labial
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| ! |Alveolar
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| ! |Click
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| ! |Palatal
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| ! |Velar
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| ! |Glottal
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| |-
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| ! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
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| | /m/
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| | /n/
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| | /ŋǃ/
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| | /ŋ/
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| |-
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| ! rowspan="2" |Plosive
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| !|<small>plain</small>
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| | /p/
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| | /t/
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| | /!/
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| | /tʃ/
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| | /k/
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| | /ʔ/
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| |-
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| !|<small>aspirated</small>
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| | /pʰ/
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| | /tʰ/
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| | /!ʰ/
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| | /tʃʰ/
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| | /kʰ/
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| |-
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| ! colspan="2" style="" |Fricative
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| | /f/
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| | /s/
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| | /ʃ/
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| | /x/
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| | /h/
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| |-
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| ! colspan="2"|Approximant
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| | /w/
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| | /l/
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| | /j/
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| |}
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| ===Vowels===
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| {| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;"
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| |+ '''{{PAGENAME}} monophthongs'''
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| ! rowspan="2" style="width: 90px; "|
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| ! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Front
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| ! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Central
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| ! colspan="2" style="width: 90px; " |Back
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| |-
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| !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
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| !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
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| !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
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| !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
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| !style="width: 45px; "|<small>short</small>
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| !style="width: 45px; "|<small>long</small>
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| |-
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| ! style="" |Close
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| | /i/
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| | /iː/
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| | /ɨ/
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| | /ɨː/
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| | /u/
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| | /uː/
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| |-
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| ! style="" |Mid
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| | /e/
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| | /eː/
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| | /ə/
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| | /əː/
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| | /o/
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| | /oː/
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| |-
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| ! style="" |Open
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| | /a/
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| | /aː/
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| Diphthongs: /ai au əi əu iə ɨə uə/
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