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===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
Old Pomorian was a pitch-accented language. Little can be found out about its stress from the few attestations but it is generally considered to be similar to modern Pomorian. There were also two different types of accent - acute and circumflex, but it is not accepted whether acute was the falling and circumflex - the rising accent (the accent system is speculated to be reversed in modern Pomorian). According to the newest data and the research of extinct southern dialects there could actually be three distinct accents, all of which having long or short variation. Some scholars even propose that Old Pomorian had broken tone similar to Danish stød or Latvian lauzta intonacija which then became a long acute accent in modern language. But this topic still needs more research, yet nothing can be stated for sure. | Old Pomorian was a pitch-accented language. Little can be found out about its stress from the few attestations but it is generally considered to be similar to modern Pomorian. There were also two different types of accent - acute and circumflex, but it is not accepted whether acute was the falling and circumflex - the rising accent (the accent system is speculated to be reversed in modern Pomorian). According to the newest data and the research of extinct southern dialects there could actually be three distinct accents, all of which having long or short variation. Some scholars even propose that Old Pomorian had broken tone similar to Danish stød or Latvian lauzta intonacija which then became a long acute accent in modern language. But this topic still needs more research, yet nothing can be stated for sure. | ||
===Ablaut=== | |||
As in Early-Proto Slavic, Old Pomorian also retained productive ablaut alterations, although they had been reduced early in its history. Some new alterations appeared instead and ablaut is still mostly productive even in the modern language. Here the alterations are listed: | |||
{| class="wikitable compressible compressed" style="text-align: center" | |||
|- | |||
! e-grade | |||
| e | |||
| ei | |||
| jau | |||
| el | |||
| er | |||
| em | |||
| en | |||
|- | |||
! ē-grade | |||
| ē | |||
| ēi | |||
| (jāu) | |||
| ēl | |||
| ēr | |||
| ēm | |||
| ēn | |||
|- | |||
! i-grade | |||
| i | |||
| ī | |||
| u | |||
| il | |||
| ir | |||
| im | |||
| in | |||
|- | |||
! a-grade | |||
| a | |||
| ai | |||
| au | |||
| al | |||
| ar | |||
| am | |||
| an | |||
|- | |||
! ā-grade | |||
| ā | |||
| āi | |||
| āu | |||
| āl | |||
| ār | |||
| ām | |||
| ān | |||
|- | |||
! u-grade | |||
| u | |||
| i | |||
| ū | |||
| ul | |||
| ur | |||
| um | |||
| un | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
All the ablaut series remained mostly unchanged (they only underwent some phonological changes and became slightly diiferent in every dialect), but only North-Western dialects retained all qualitative alterations prductive. | |||
==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
Almost all the Old pomorian morphology is reconstructed and not attested. The internal reconstruction was used by comparing different dialects. | Almost all the Old pomorian morphology is reconstructed and not attested. The internal reconstruction was used by comparing different dialects. | ||