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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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| | | p || t || || || k || kʷ || q || | ||
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| | | b || d || || || ɡ || ɡʷ || ɢ || | ||
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| | | ɸ || θ || s || ɬ || x || xʷ || χ || h | ||
|- | |- | ||
| m || n || r || l || j || w || | | β || ð || || || || || ʁ || | ||
|- | |||
| m || n || r || l || j || w || || | |||
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No evidence exists of labialized uvulars. | No evidence exists of labialized uvulars. | ||
/ɸ θ x xʷ/ could not occur intervocally, while /β ð/ could ''only'' occur there, thereby best being analyzable as allophones of their unvoiced counterparts. | |||
Carrying over from Proto-Persian' was the feature that both nasals could occur before just about any consonants, apparently without any POA assimilation taking place. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
Revision as of 11:55, 11 September 2008
The branch further divides into the Bustaxoid and Tsonboid languages.
Changes from Proto-Persian'
- high vowels
- ɪ ʊ ɪː ʊː → i u əj əw
- ɪw ɪj ʊj → iw iː uj
- loss of difthongs in _w
- k → kʷ / w_C
- iw → yː
- ew → e₂ː
- æw → æː
- ow → uː
- əw → o₁ː
- stop phonation/MOA changes
- intervocalic lenition: b d → β ð
- intervocalic voicing: p t k q → b d ɡ ɢ
- loss of aspiration
- ʰp ʰt ʰk(ʷ) ʰq → p t k(ʷ) q
- pʰ tʰ kʰ qʰ → ɸ θ x χ
- stop clusters with a 2nd voiced member become voiced thruout
- lo vowels
- æ ɐ æː ɒː → a ə aː o₂ː
Intermediate form
Consonants
| p | t | k | kʷ | q | |||
| b | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ɢ | |||
| ɸ | θ | s | ɬ | x | xʷ | χ | h |
| β | ð | ʁ | |||||
| m | n | r | l | j | w |
No evidence exists of labialized uvulars.
/ɸ θ x xʷ/ could not occur intervocally, while /β ð/ could only occur there, thereby best being analyzable as allophones of their unvoiced counterparts.
Carrying over from Proto-Persian' was the feature that both nasals could occur before just about any consonants, apparently without any POA assimilation taking place.
Vowels
The short vowel inventory is /i u e ə o a/, the long vowel inventory /iː yː uː eː oː aː/.
Two distinct types of /eː oː/ are reconstructed for PWP'. Most likely these are /eː oː/ and /ɛː ɔː/, but it remains unclear which are which. An alternate theory proposes /øː ɤː/ insted but with little additional clarification.
