Re: TRANS: a lament under the rain

Kyan FFlores <fflores@...> sa:

>
>Dialectal features:
>
>Note the change of long vowels into vowel + underlying /h/, typical of
>the southern dialect. In _flihn_ (Std _fl=ECn_) it makes the /n/ almost
>unvoiced, and it gives _eh=E1v_ /@'hav/ from Old Drasel=E9q /@'ha:b@/,
>through /@'hahb@/ > /@'hahb/ > /@'hav/ (Std is _h=E0p_, with final
>devoicing and dropping of open-syllable schwa).
>
>
>--Pablo Flores
What a coincidence. The same conlang muses must have speaking to the both=
 of=20
us. Just today I was working on the Central Mountain dialect of Asiteya,=20
which is in a process of changing the Standard vowel + /h/
into long vowels.

Jennifer


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