Proto-Dalcurian: Difference between revisions

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Proto-Dalcurian (300AD-800AD) saw the following changes and introductions:

syncopation and the loss of the inherent vowel, which resulted in the decline of the Thaduracian alphabet, replaced by the Irish unical, vowels became fully represented but only phonemically

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-Proto-Dalcurian saw the following changes and feature introductions:
+Proto-Dalcurian (300AD-800AD) saw the following changes and introductions:
-* aspirated plosives and dentals
+* syncopation and the loss of the inherent vowel, which resulted in the decline of the Thaduracian alphabet, replaced by the Irish unical, vowels became fully represented but only phonemically
-* introduction of the spirant'th' represented by Þ
+* introduction of the character Þ, representing an unaspirated '''th'''
-* vowel allophony: syllable stress introduced allophones such as 'o' as in 'do', 'a' as in 'day' and 'father'
+* minor vowel shift '''/ʊ/''' became '''/ʊ:/''' as in ''do''
 * 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''' became somewhat 'gutteral' as in the German ''doch''
-* '''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')