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Anyway my first attempt at ''anything'' tends to get messy! {{-)}} | Anyway my first attempt at ''anything'' tends to get messy! {{-)}} | ||
== Vowels == | |||
{| class="gridtable IPA" style="text-align: center;" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" | {| class="gridtable IPA" style="text-align: center;" border="1" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" | ||
|+ Stressed vowels | |+ Stressed vowels | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | | ! style="text-align: right;" | 0) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Latin | ! style="text-align: left;" | Latin | ||
! style="text-align: center; width: 3em;" |{{SC|ī}} | ! style="text-align: center; width: 3em;" |{{SC|ī}} | ||
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! style="text-align: center; width: 3em;" |{{SC|ū}} | ! style="text-align: center; width: 3em;" |{{SC|ū}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | 1 | ! style="text-align: right;" | 1) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Early V.L. | ! style="text-align: left;" | Early V.L. | ||
| i | | i | ||
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| u | | u | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | 2 | ! style="text-align: right;" | 2) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Sard/African V.L. | ! style="text-align: left;" | Sard/African V.L. | ||
| colspan="2" | i | | colspan="2" | i | ||
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| colspan="2" | u | | colspan="2" | u | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | 3 | ! style="text-align: right;" | 3) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Sicilian V.L. | ! style="text-align: left;" | Sicilian V.L. | ||
| colspan="3" | i | | colspan="3" | i | ||
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| colspan="3" | u | | colspan="3" | u | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | 4 | ! style="text-align: right;" | 4) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Corsican V.L. | ! style="text-align: left;" | Corsican V.L. | ||
| i | | i | ||
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| u | | u | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | 5 | ! style="text-align: right;" | 5) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Western V.L. | ! style="text-align: left;" | Western V.L. | ||
| i | | i | ||
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| u | | u | ||
|- | |- | ||
! style="text-align: right;" | 6 | ! style="text-align: right;" | 6) | ||
! style="text-align: left;" | Eastern V.L. | ! style="text-align: left;" | Eastern V.L. | ||
| i | | i | ||
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| colspan="2" | u | | colspan="2" | u | ||
|} | |} | ||
* All attested Romance vowel systems presuppose an early Vulgar Latin (1) system where the length distinctions of the Latin (0) | |||
* All of (2, 3, 5, 6) can be derived from (1), although in the case of (2) it is more reasonable to assume that it derives directly from (0) through loss of the length distinction. In the case of (4) it is most likely that it derives from a system parallel to (1) where {{SC|ĭ}} had merged with {{SC|ĕ}} and {{SC|ŭ}} had merged with {{SC|ŏ}} before the loss of the length distinction. | |||
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Revision as of 10:38, 12 April 2007
I begun a phonology, but it seems my sources were too contradictory, and old, so that they didn't distinguish sufficiently between phonological, morphological and analogical changes, or at least had a different idea about them from modern sources. Anyway my first attempt at anything tends to get messy! ☺
Vowels
| 0) | Latin | ī | ĭ | ē | ĕ | ā | ă | ŏ | ō | ŭ | ū |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) | Early V.L. | i | ɪ | e | ɛ | a | ɔ | o | ʊ | u | |
| 2) | Sard/African V.L. | i | e | a | o | u | |||||
| 3) | Sicilian V.L. | i | e | a | o | u | |||||
| 4) | Corsican V.L. | i | ɛ | e | ɛ | a | ɔ | o | ɔ | u | |
| 5) | Western V.L. | i | e | ɛ | a | ɔ | o | u | |||
| 6) | Eastern V.L. | i | e | ɛ | a | ɔ | o | u | |||
- All attested Romance vowel systems presuppose an early Vulgar Latin (1) system where the length distinctions of the Latin (0)
- All of (2, 3, 5, 6) can be derived from (1), although in the case of (2) it is more reasonable to assume that it derives directly from (0) through loss of the length distinction. In the case of (4) it is most likely that it derives from a system parallel to (1) where ĭ had merged with ĕ and ŭ had merged with ŏ before the loss of the length distinction.
