From 775b597c9e64b36902e542df2014428566bd8a95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lucien Cartier-Tilet Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:03:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(eittlandic): add some regional phonetic variations --- docs/eittlandic/phonology.org | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/eittlandic/phonology.org b/docs/eittlandic/phonology.org index 027445d..4c0a8f3 100644 --- a/docs/eittlandic/phonology.org +++ b/docs/eittlandic/phonology.org @@ -560,7 +560,28 @@ formal speech. Eittlandic {{{phon(ɑɪnləɡr)}}} #+html: ::: +**** {{{phon(ɔ)}}} and {{{phon(ɑ)}}} merger +Western Eittlandic is currently going a phonological merge of the +vowels {{{phon(ɔ)}}} and {{{phon(ɑ)}}} into {{{phon(ɒ)}}}. The vowel {{{phon(ɔ̀)}}} also +follows this pattern, morphing into {{{phon(ɒ̀)}}}. + +**** Great Vowel Shift variation +While the Great Vowel Shift is happened relatively uniformly in +Eittland, some regions did not follow the same pattern as what +happened everywhere else. + +The main example is the area around Đeberget where the vowel {{{phon(ɑː)}}} +evolved not as {{{phon(ɛ̀)}}} but as {{{phon(ɔ̀)}}}. + *** Eastern Eittlandic +**** {{{phon(y)}}} and {{{phon(u)}}} merger +In areas around Vestrheim especially, locals tend to merge {{{phon(y)}}} +into {{{phon(u)}}}. + +**** Centralisation of {{{phon(i)}}} +In the northern rural parts of Eastern Eittland, populations tend to +centralise {{{phon(i)}}} into {{{phon(ɨ)}}}. + **** Great Vowel Shift variation When the [[file:./phonology.md#great-vowel-shift][Great Vowel Shift]] happened, not all regions were affected the same. As such, we can find in some rural parts of the Eastern