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Final vowels usually disappeared, and it opened the way for an important way of distinction: '''''palatalization''''' | Final vowels usually disappeared, and it opened the way for an important way of distinction: '''''palatalization''''' | ||
* | * ''-o'' → falls | ||
* | * ''-e'' → falls | ||
* | * ''-i'' → falls, but it '''palatalized''' the previous consonant | ||
* | * ''-a'' → '''-e''' | ||
* | * ''-u'' → remains '''-u''' | ||
Inside words, vowels underwent other kinds of changes: | |||
* unstressed ''-a-'' became '''-ë-''', if it is in syllables before the stressed one. | |||
* open front vowel ''-e-'' became dipthong '''-ei-''' | |||
* closed back vowel ''-o-'' became open back vowel '''-o-'''. | |||
* dipthong ''-uo-'' became open back vowel '''-o-''' | |||
Revision as of 07:11, 11 August 2008
Itëłan is a language, born to be a possible evolution of the today standard Italian language (with some Tuscan influence). It was created by adopting some phonetical rules of change, fixed in the language. Very few phonetical laws can deeply modify a language. And some morphological parts of the language underwent some analogical or redistributing change.
Phonetic changes
Vowels
Final vowels usually disappeared, and it opened the way for an important way of distinction: palatalization
- -o → falls
- -e → falls
- -i → falls, but it palatalized the previous consonant
- -a → -e
- -u → remains -u
Inside words, vowels underwent other kinds of changes:
- unstressed -a- became -ë-, if it is in syllables before the stressed one.
- open front vowel -e- became dipthong -ei-
- closed back vowel -o- became open back vowel -o-.
- dipthong -uo- became open back vowel -o-
