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Unlike many Gallo-Romance languages (French technically lacked this), Garonnian lacks final obstruent devoicing. Unusually among Romance languages, Garonnian exhibits initial consonant mutations and contain somewhat unusual phoneme {{IPA|/ŋ/}} which can occur in any positions. | Unlike many Gallo-Romance languages (French technically lacked this), Garonnian lacks final obstruent devoicing. Unusually among Romance languages, Garonnian exhibits initial consonant mutations and contain somewhat unusual phoneme {{IPA|/ŋ/}} which can occur in any positions. | ||
=== Orthography ==== | |||
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! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Spelling | |||
! colspan="4" | Pronunciation value | |||
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! Major | |||
! Examples | |||
! Minor | |||
! Examples | |||
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| colspan="2" | ''b'' | |||
| {{IPA|/b/}} | |||
| '''''b'''ull'' | |||
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| rowspan="2" | ''c'' | |||
| Before ''a'', ''o'', ''u'' | |||
| {{IPA|/k/}} | |||
| '''''c'''ur'' | |||
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| Before ''e'', ''i'' | |||
| {{IPA|/tʃ/}} | |||
| '''''c'''iul'' | |||
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== Vowels == | == Vowels == | ||
Revision as of 02:12, 20 January 2022
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /ŋ/ | ||||||
| Plosive | /p/ | /b/ | /t/ | /d/ | /k/ | /ɡ/ | ||||
| Affricate | /ts/ | /dz/ | /tʃ/ | /dʒ/ | ||||||
| Fricative | /f/ | /v/ | /s/ | /z/ | /ʃ/ | /ʒ/ | /h/ | |||
| Trill | /r/ | |||||||||
| Approximants | /l/ | /ʎ/ | ||||||||
Unlike many Gallo-Romance languages (French technically lacked this), Garonnian lacks final obstruent devoicing. Unusually among Romance languages, Garonnian exhibits initial consonant mutations and contain somewhat unusual phoneme /ŋ/ which can occur in any positions.
Orthography =
| Spelling | Pronunciation value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major | Examples | Minor | Examples | ||
| b | /b/ | bull | |||
| c | Before a, o, u | /k/ | cur | ||
| Before e, i | /tʃ/ | ciul | |||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | |
| Close | /i/ | /iː/ | /u/ | /uː/ | ||
| Mid | /ɛ/ | /ɛː/ | /ɔ/ | /ɔː/ | ||
| Open | /a/ | /aː/ | ||||
In unstressed positions, only the vowels /a, i, u/ are allowed. Vowel length are phonemicized as a result of losses of certain consonants (these are, */β, ð, ɣ/), but also as a result of simplification of certain vowel hiatuses (teir */ti.ˈir/ → /ˈtiːr/ "to hold", aad /ˈaːd/ "(s)he had").
Consonant structure
The maximal consonant structure in Garonnian is C¹C²S¹VS²C¹C².
Stress
Like French, Garonnian words are always stressed in the last syllable. However, words containing vowel hiatuses are stressed in the second-to-last (penultimate) syllable (bua /ˈbu.a/ "good (fem. sg.)"). As previously I, Willett said, only /a, i, u/ are allowed in unstressed syllables.
