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Talib · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 8:22 am Posts:768 Location: Canada

Quote:

[ɹ̝̊u ɬɛ lɛ vnæ̃]

Bilabial fricatives shift to labiodentals.

Abugida · Joined:Thu 23 Sep 2010 2:38 am Posts:11

nasal

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[ɹ̝̊u ɬɛ lɛ væ̃ ]

I think this is okay because the residual nasalization is still on the vowel; nasalization just has to be phonemic for vowels, then...

Abugida · Joined:Thu 23 Sep 2010 2:38 am Posts:11

hellooooo?

anybody?

Dan_ad_nauseam · Joined:Sat 18 Apr 2009 5:25 am Posts:203

Abugida wrote:

[ɹ̝̊u ɬɛ lɛ væ̃ ]

Loss of nasalization of vowels.

[ɹ̝̊u ɬɛ lɛ væ]

Elijah · **Posted:** Sun 29 Jan 2012 8:44 pm

[ɹ̝̊u ɬɛ ɬɛ fæ]
Loss of consonant voicing...

linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1010

Elijah wrote:

Loss of consonant voicing...

(Plus fricativisation of voiceless laterals, apparently.)

[ɹ̝̊u ɬia ɬia feə]

Breaking of non-high front vowels.

Elijah · **Posted:** Thu 02 Feb 2012 6:01 pm

[ɹ̝̊u ɬiə ɬiə feə]

Relaxing of low vowels.

Elijah · **Posted:** Wed 18 Apr 2012 10:57 pm

[ɹ̝̊ju ɬaiə ɬaiə fiə]

GREAT VOWEL SHIFT!!!!!!

linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1010

Elijah wrote:

[ɹ̝̊ju ɬaiə ɬaiə fiə]

GREAT VOWEL SHIFT!!!!!!

Why isn't [u] affected?

Dan_ad_nauseam · Joined:Sat 18 Apr 2009 5:25 am Posts:203

[ɹ̝̊ju ɬai ɬai fi]

Loss of relaxed vowels (assuming reduced stress).