(1) Deletion of unstressed reduced vowels in syllables preceding fully realised vowels, unless this will create an illegal consonant cluster;Nortaneous wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 4:03 pm 1) Chain shift of long and short vowels to short and reduced
1.1) Reduced vowels become semivowels before other vowels
1.2) Reduced vowels merge to schwa / schwi (only distinct word-initially) and are deleted when phonotactics permit, becoming epenthetic otherwise
1.3) Stress shift away from reduced vowels
2) rj > ʒ
3) Final d > n
4) e o > ɛi ɔu > ai ɑu, ɪ ʏ ʊ > e ø o
5) Further orthographic regularization
[ɨ̆ppɛˈʒɛs wɑu nøw ə̆tˈtɔrə̆n]
[bain e vi wɔʴn bɛʴ riç ɨ̆ˈnə̆h də̆ mai]
[də̆ pɛç ɔ wɑu wɑ ji je mə̆ˈʒɛn]
[fɔʴ lə̆ʴˈðeɣ, si jə̆ ðwɜ jɛʴ bain ɑu ɛn]
Eppairiais, wou neuw attauran
Bein y wie woarn, ber righ enagh ta mei
Ta paigh au wou wae i y mariain
Foar lardyg, si ya thwai yair bein ou ain
(1.1) Initial geminates that would be produced in this way are reduced to a single consonant;
(1.2) Unstressed words may end up prefixed onto what follows;
(2) Remaining unstressed vowels assimilate to the full realisation of the one that follows or precedes;
(2.1) Remaining stressed [ə̆] merges with [ø], being then caught in a chain shift [ø] > [e]
(3) Postvocalic velar and uvular fricatives become semiconsonants assimilated to the preceding vowel
(3.1) Front rhotic vowels are lowered, [ɛʴ], [eʴ] > [ɑʴ]
(3.2) Rhotic vowels become long vowels.
(3.3) [ɑu] merges with [ɑː], [aj], [ɛj], [ej] and [e] merge to [eː]
(3.4) [ɔː], [wɜ] and [ɔ] merge to [ɔː]
(4.) Fashionable orthographic reform to look more like Dutch owing to an Orangist movement, reclassicalisation of some words;
(4.1) Some plural analogicalisation too; "eeuwdee" (cognate to "elder") is borrowed from a dialect to replace "ee" ("age").
Espezjestja wa neeuw otorontee
Been ei wie worn, ba rij nee t'mee
T'pei oo war wa ji jee mezjee
For laatheen, si ithwoo jar been ar eeuwdee
[ɛspɛˈʒɛstjɑ wɑː neːw ɔtɔrɔnteː]
[beːn eː vi wɔʴn bɑː rij neː dmeː]
[tpɛj ɔː wɑː wɑ ji jeː mɛˈʒeː]
[fɔː lɑːˈðeː, si iðwɔː jɑː beːn ɑː eudeː]
