East-A Altaic': Difference between revisions

Revision as of 04:05, 15 September 2007

A more conservativ subfamily of East Altaic', spoken in NW Himalayas.

Some sound changes from Proto-East Altaic':

loss of contrastiv labialization in uvulars
labialized velars → labial-velars
ɜ → ʌ
æ, ɑ → ɑ̵
ʊ → o
fricativ voicing
retroflex loss: ʈ ʂ ʐ → q x r (probably occurs in phases — ʈ → q appears to be the oldest change)

A typical phoneme system is (phonemes only occuring in few languages in parentheses):

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 *ʊ → o
 *fricativ voicing
-*ʂ ʐ → x r
+*retroflex loss: ʈ ʂ ʐ → q x r (probably occurs in phases — ʈ → q appears to be the oldest change)
-*ʈ → q
+A typical phoneme system is (phonemes only occuring in few languages in parentheses):
+{|
+|
+! Labial
+! Dental /<br/> alveolar
+! Post-<br/>alveolar
+! Velar
+! Labial-<br/>velar
+! Uvular /<br/>glottal
+|-
+! Voiceless stops
+| align="center" | p
+| align="center" | t
+| align="center" | ʧ
+| align="center" | k
+| align="center" | kp
+| align="center" | q
+|-
+! Voiced stops
+| align="center" | b
+| align="center" | d
+| align="center" | ʤ
+| align="center" | ɡ
+| align="center" | ɡb
+|-
+! Voiceless fricativs
+| align="center" | (f)
+| align="center" | s
+| align="center" | ʃ
+| align="center" | x ||
+| align="center" | h
+|-
+! Voiced fricativs
+| align="center" | v
+| align="center" | z
+| align="center" | ʒ
+| align="center" | (ɣ)
+|-
+! Nasals
+| align="center" | m
+| align="center" | n ||
+| align="center" | ŋ
+| align="center" | ŋm
+|-
+! Approximants
+|
+| align="center" | l
+| align="center" | r &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; j ||
+| align="center" | w
+|-
+|}
+{|
+! !! Front !! Lax !! Back
+|-
+! Hi
+| align="center" | i
+| align="center" | ɪ
+| align="center" | u
+|-
+! Mid
+| align="center" | e
+| align="center" | ʌ
+| align="center" | o
+|-
+! Lo
+| colspan="3" align="center" | a ~ ɑ
+|-
+|}