Garonnian/Sound changes

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Vulgar Latin to Proto-Garonnian

  • Deletion of vowels in contact with the liquids (/l/ or /r/): speculum/isˈpɛkʲu//isˈpjɔdʒu/pisçog​̧ /pisˈtʃɔdʒ/ "mirror"
  • Early lenition: /b/ and /v/ merge to /β/ in intervocalic positions. Before liquids, however, the sounds change to /w/ instead (Latin parabolō/paˈrawlu/ → Garonnian parol /paˈrɔl/ "I speak"). Note them will deleted before /j/.
  • Palatalization of /l/ following a consonant to /j/ (note cluster /kl//kʲ/tʃ//dʒ/, an unusual development in standards of Romance languages, e.g. Latin oculus → Garonnian ueg​̧ "eye").
  • Palatalization of /k(ɛ,i,j)/, /ɡ(ɛ,i,j)/ to /tʃ/ and /j/, respectively. The following original /j/ sounds (resulted from /e(ː)/ and /i(ː)/ preceding vowels) are deleted.
    • Notice also additional palatalizations that only occur before /j/: /lʲ//ʎ/, /nʲ//ɲ/, /sʲ//ʃ/, and /tʲ//ts/. Others were still denoted by plain palatalization: /mʲ/, /pʲ/, and /rʲ/. Note that original /bʲ/ in early Proto-Gallo-Sicilian times transformed into /j/: habeōai "I have".
  • Vowel shifts: ten vowels in Classical Latin are reduced to only five vowels in Proto-Garonnian:
Classical Latin a e i o u
Proto-Gallo-Sicilian a ɛ i ɔ u