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The key features of proto-Dalcurian were:
<span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">Proto-Dalcurian saw the following changes and feature introductions:</span>


* palatialization
* <span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">aspirated plosives and dentals


* lenition
* <span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">introduction of 'th' represented by Þ


* onset of the bilabial plosive '''/b/'''
* <span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">vowel allophony: syllable stress introduced allophones such as 'o' as in 'do', 'a' as in 'day' and 'father'


* loan words
* <span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">many loan words from germanic and celtic origin
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">vowel combinations became dipthongs, for example, the combination 'ei' in '''falacheild''' became like the 'ey' in 'they'
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px"><span style="font-family: Garamond">'''ch''' lost its ligature and became somewhat 'gutteral' (this was later replaced with the letter 'j' and the gutteral 'ch' sound was denoted by 'ø')

Revision as of 02:27, 15 May 2008

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Proto-Dalcurian saw the following changes and feature introductions:

  • aspirated plosives and dentals
  • introduction of 'th' represented by Þ
  • vowel allophony: syllable stress introduced allophones such as 'o' as in 'do', 'a' as in 'day' and 'father'
  • many loan words from germanic and celtic origin
  • vowel combinations became dipthongs, for example, the combination 'ei' in falacheild became like the 'ey' in 'they'
  • ch lost its ligature and became somewhat 'gutteral' (this was later replaced with the letter 'j' and the gutteral 'ch' sound was denoted by 'ø')