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*/t tʂ s n/ → /ṯ ṯ s̱ ṉ/ (with the [ʧ] allophone also generalized to both stops) | */t tʂ s n/ → /ṯ ṯ s̱ ṉ/ (with the [ʧ] allophone also generalized to both stops) | ||
*/d̻ ḏˤ/ → /l̻ ɫ/ conditionally (pretonic intervocalic maybe?) | |||
*Voicing processes | *Voicing processes | ||
*/θˤ/ → /ħ/; under voicing /ɫ/ | */θˤ/ → /ħ/; under voicing /ɫ/ | ||
*Velar rounding (maybe not with vowel elision but mergers / harmony?) | *Velar rounding (maybe not with vowel elision but mergers / harmony?) | ||
*Pharyngeal harmony (spills over into vowels too) | *Pharyngeal harmony (spills over into vowels too) | ||
**Emphasis spreds thru a word unless blocked by a velar obstruent or nasal. | **Emphasis spreds thru a word unless blocked by a velar obstruent or nasal. | ||
**The laminal/apical distinction in coronals is neutralized. | **The laminal/apical distinction in coronals is neutralized when emphatic. | ||
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Revision as of 02:08, 15 August 2008
Proto-Altaic' to Erly Proto-West Altaic'
- /s ʂ/ → [ts tʂ] and /ɽ/ → [ɖ] when initial or prenasal
- Lenition of dorsal stops to fricativs in vicinity of other stops
- Retroflexes (but not the palato-alveolar sibilant allophones) acquire velarization
- /w/ is also possibly alreddy [βˠ] by this stage (areal influence? CF Proto-Betamax)
- /N/ drops before affricates and [ɖ], phonemicizing 'em
Erly to mid PWA'
ca. -3ka
Middle PWA' had three main dialects: Northern, spoken in the vicinity of the Aral Sea; and Southern, spoken across a wide area south of this, further broken down to West proper just south of the Caspian Sea, and Proto-Sadabax, spoken around where Samarkand exists in reality.
- /x xʷ Nx Nxʷ χ χʷ Nχ Nχʷ/ → /h f ŋh ŋʷh ħ fˤ ŋħ ŋʷħ/
- Retroflex stops (but generally not affricates) → velars before front vowels, emphatics elsewhere; [ɽˠ] → /ɡ/ consistently
- POA chain shift involving labials. The results differ a bit by the dialect:
- 1) /kʷ ŋʷ qʷ/ → /p m pˤ/ (South), /pˠ m kʴ/ (North)
- 2) /p f fˤ/ → /t̻ θ ??/ (South), /pʲ fʲ fˠ/ (North) (/m/ is not pushed due to distributional differences)
- Associated approximant drift
- /l/ → /n̻/
- /j/ → /ɟ/ → /dʲ/ (North), → /d̻/ (South)
- /w/ → /βˠ/ → /bˠ/ (North), → /bˤ/ (South)
- /ts/ → /θ/ (only in West)
- /q/ → /ʔ/ (South), /kʴ/ (North)
- /θ/ → /s̻/ (→ /sʲ/ in North and Sadabax)
Mid to late PWA'
ca. -1.5ka
- /t tʂ s n/ → /ṯ ṯ s̱ ṉ/ (with the [ʧ] allophone also generalized to both stops)
- /d̻ ḏˤ/ → /l̻ ɫ/ conditionally (pretonic intervocalic maybe?)
- Voicing processes
- /θˤ/ → /ħ/; under voicing /ɫ/
- Velar rounding (maybe not with vowel elision but mergers / harmony?)
- Pharyngeal harmony (spills over into vowels too)
- Emphasis spreds thru a word unless blocked by a velar obstruent or nasal.
- The laminal/apical distinction in coronals is neutralized when emphatic.
| Labial | Lamino- dental |
Apico- postalveolar |
Velar | Laryngeal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Emphatic | Plain | Emphatic | Plain | Labial | Plain | Emphatic | |||
| Stops | Voiceless | p | pˤ | t̻ | ṯ | ṯˤ | k | kʷ | (ʔ ~ ∅) | |
| Voiced | b | bˤ | d̻ | ḏ | ḏˤ | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | s̻ | s̱ | ʂˣ | xʷ | h | ħ | |||
| Voiced | z̻ | ẕ | ʐˠ | (ɣʷ) | ||||||
| Nasals | m | mˤ | n̻ | ṉ | ṉˤ | ŋ | ||||
| Laterals | l̻ | (ḻ) | ɫ | |||||||
| Semivowels | ɻˠ | j | w | |||||||
(Depending on the font, the laminality signs (subsc. square) may look like dentality sings (subsc. bridge), but since they're dental anyway, that's no problem.)
