Re: Phaleran Update: Ordinal allomorphy; Phaleran dialectology:near/far distinction in Phalitlai

Quoting Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>:

> "Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> >   3      meo        myul
> >   4      teo        tyul
>
> What causes the eo -> yu change?
In most dialects, there is a restriction on the number of
morae per syllable to 2 per syllable.  Different dialects
handle this in different ways.  Some, like the standard,
unround the vowel and turn it into the nearest glide (the
protoform is from C'|ali *_möu_ and *_töu_ respectively).
Other dialects monopthongize it to get the following:

   3    meo    mul
   4    teo    tul

Still others obliterate a distinction entirely, to get:

   3    myu    myul
   4    tyu    tyul

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