Oikan language: Difference between revisions

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|Mid

|e [e̞~ə]

|o [o̞~~~ɵ̞~~~ə]

|o [o̞~ə]

|-

|Open

| colspan="2" |a [ä~ɐ~ə]

| colspan="2" |a [ä~ə]

|-

! colspan="3" |Diphthongs

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* /n/ and /l/ are palatal when followed by /e, ei̯, eu̯, i, iu̯, j, ʃ, ʒ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/

* /n/ and /l/ are velar when followed by /o, oi̯, ou̯, u, ui̯, w, k, g/

* ~~in ''glede'' speech,~~ /tp/ and /pt/ are realized as [t͡p], and /db/ and /bd/ are realized as [d͡b]

* /tp/ and /pt/ are realized as [t͡p], and /db/ and /bd/ are realized as [d͡b]

* in ''glede'' speech, the reduced forms of /a/, /e/, and /o/ merge into [ə]

=== Phonotactics ===

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* when an oral sonorant clusters with a nasal sonorant within the same syllable in a coda, the oral sonorant must come first

* hiatuses involving /i, iu̯, u, ui̯/ cannot occur, except in loanwords

~~=== ''Kelhria'' and ''Gledia'' ===~~

All dialects of Oikan have a distinction between the ''kelhre'' register (''kelhria'') and the ''glede'' register (''gledia''). ''Kelhria'' is careful, enunciated speech. ''Gledia'' is natural, “lazy” speech. Certain allophonic processes only occur in ''gledia''.

This distinction arose ca. the 1850s, when certain sound changes involving allophony happened, but society begin to see them as inherently informal, so they affected speech without them when speaking formally or carefully. More-or-less, ''gledia'' has the natural evolution of Oikan allophony, whereas ''kelhria'' is an affectation designed to imitate the Oikan allophony of the early 19<sup><u>th</u></sup> century.

=== Other Phonological Details ===

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 |Mid
 |e [e̞~ə]
-|o [o̞~ɵ̞~ə]
+|o [o̞~ə]
 |-
 |Open
-| colspan="2" |a [ä~ɐ~ə]
+| colspan="2" |a [ä~ə]
 |-
 ! colspan="3" |Diphthongs
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 * /n/ and /l/ are palatal when followed by /e, ei̯, eu̯, i, iu̯, j, ʃ, ʒ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ/
 * /n/ and /l/ are velar when followed by /o, oi̯, ou̯, u, ui̯, w, k, g/
-* in ''glede'' speech, /tp/ and /pt/ are realized as [t͡p], and /db/ and /bd/ are realized as [d͡b]
+* /tp/ and /pt/ are realized as [t͡p], and /db/ and /bd/ are realized as [d͡b]
-* in ''glede'' speech, the reduced forms of /a/, /e/, and /o/ merge into [ə]
 === Phonotactics ===
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 * when an oral sonorant clusters with a nasal sonorant within the same syllable in a coda, the oral sonorant must come first
 * hiatuses involving /i, iu̯, u, ui̯/ cannot occur, except in loanwords
-=== ''Kelhria'' and ''Gledia'' ===
-All dialects of Oikan have a distinction between the ''kelhre'' register (''kelhria'') and the ''glede'' register (''gledia''). ''Kelhria'' is careful, enunciated speech. ''Gledia'' is natural, “lazy” speech. Certain allophonic processes only occur in ''gledia''.
-This distinction arose ca. the 1850s, when certain sound changes involving allophony happened, but society begin to see them as inherently informal, so they affected speech without them when speaking formally or carefully. More-or-less, ''gledia'' has the natural evolution of Oikan allophony, whereas ''kelhria'' is an affectation designed to imitate the Oikan allophony of the early 19<sup><u>th</u></sup> century.
 === Other Phonological Details ===