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#+setupfile: ../headers
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* Phonetic Inventory and Translitteration
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** Evolution from Early Old Norse to Eittlandic
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Eittlandic evolved early on from Early Old Norse, and as such some
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vowels it evolved from are different from the Old Norse vowels and
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consonants some other Nordic languages evolved from. In this chapter,
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we will see the main list of attested phonetic evolution Eittlandic
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lived through.
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The history of Eittlandic goes from the late 8th century until
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modern-day Eittlandic. Its history is divided as shown on table below.
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It is not an exact science though as changes happened progressively
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through the country. Changes were also progressive, meaning the dates
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chosen to go from one language to the other are relatively arbitrary.
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In evolution examples, it will be indicated whether the Eittlandic
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pronunciation is specific to a certain time area (with /Early Middle
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Eittlandic/, /Late Old Eittlandic/, etc…) but if it only specifies
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/Eittlandic/ it means no significant changes in pronunciation occurred
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since the phonetic rule shown. Meaning is also shown between
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parenthesis. In case of semantic shift, its new meaning in Eittlandic
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is shown --- the same goes for the word’s spelling.
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#+name: table:history-eittlandic-language
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#+caption: Linguistic eras of Eittland
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| Period | Language |
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|-----------------------------+-------------------|
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| 8th century - 12th century | Old Eittlandic |
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| 13th century - 16th century | Middle Eittlandic |
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| 17th century - today | Modern Eittlandic |
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It is generally considered the gj-shift of the 13th century is the
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evolution that marks the change from Old Eittlandic to Middle
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Eittlandic while the great vowel shift marks the change from Middle
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Eittlandic to Modern Eittlandic between the 16th and the 17th century.
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*** hʷ » ʍ
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One of the first evolution of the Eittlandic was the evolution of the
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{{{phon(hʷ)}}} into a {{{phon(ʍ)}}} (written «hv»). It differs from other nordic
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languages which evolved their {{{phon(hʷ)}}} into a {{{phon(v)}}}, like in
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Icelandic or in Norwegian. However, this evolution is cause to debate,
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mainly due to the original phoneme {{{phon(hʷ)}}} which could be inherited
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from Proto-Norse instead.
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+ Example :: Early Old Norse or Late Proto-Norse /hvat/ (what)
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{{{phon(hʷɑt)}}} » Eittlandic /hvat/ (what) {{{phon(ʍɑt)}}}
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*** C / #h_ » C[-voice]
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When preceded by a {{{phon(h)}}}, word-initial consonants such as «l», «r»,
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«n» would lose their voicing and become voiceless consonants. Note
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«hj» went to {{{phon(ç)}}}.
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+ Example ::
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- Early Old Norse /hlóð/ (/hearth/) {{{phon(hloːð)}}} » Old Eittlandic /hlóð/
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{{{phon(l̥oːð)}}}
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- Early Old-Norse /hneisa/ (/shame, disgrace/) {{{phon(hneisɑ)}}} » Early Old
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Eittlandic {{{phon(n̥eisɑ)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /hrifs/ (/robbery/) {{{phon(hrifs)}}} » Old Norse {{{phon(r̥ifs)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /hjól/ (wheel) {{{phon(hjoːl)}}} » Old Eittlandic {{{phon(çoːl)}}}
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*** g / {#,V}_{V,#} » ɣ
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In word-initial position and followed by a vowel or when between
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vowels, Early Old Norse {{{phon(g)}}} gets palatalized into a {{{phon(ɣ)}}}.
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+ Example :: Early Old Norse /gegn/ (/against, right opposite/) {{{phon(gegn̩)}}}
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» Old Eittlandic {{{phon(ɣegn̩)}}}
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*** V / _# » ∅ ! j _
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When finishing a word, short unaccented vowels disappeared.
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Historically, they first went through a weakening transforming them
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into a {{{phon(ə)}}}, but they eventually disappeared before long vowels got
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affected by the first part of the rule. However, it did not apply to
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final vowels following a «j».
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+ Example :: Old Norse /heilsa/ (/health/) {{{phon(heilsɑ)}}} » Late Old
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Eittlandic /heils/ {{{phon(heils)}}}.
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Reflecting this change, the last vowel got lost in the Eittlandic
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orthography. However, this rule did not get applied consistently with
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a good deal of people that kept them well until the [[*Great Vowel Shift][Great Vowel Shift]].
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*** V / j_# » ə
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While the final short vowel of words did not disappear when preceded
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by a «j», they still weakened to a schwa.
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+ Example :: Old Norse /sitja/ (/to sit/) {{{phon(sitjɑ)}}} » Old Eittlandic
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{{{phon(sitjə)}}}
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*** Vː / _# » ə
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When at the end of a word, long unaccented vowels get weakened into a
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schwa.
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+ Example :: Old Norse /erþó/ (as though) {{{phon(erθoː)}}} » Late Old
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Eittlandic {{{phon(erθə)}}}.
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Notice how in the modern orthography the «ó» didn’t get lost, unlike
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with the previous rule. Unlike the schwa from the previous rule, the
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current schwa still bears the long vowel feature, although it is not
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pronounced any more by that point, influencing the rule described in [[*ə\[-long\] / C_# »
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∅][rule 15]].
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*** ɣ / {#,V}_ » j
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During the 13th century, continued palatalization of the letter «g»
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when beginning or preceding a vowel transformed it from {{{phon(g)}}} in
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Proto-Norse to {{{phon(ɣ)}}} in Old Eittlandic to {{{phon(j)}}} in Early Modern
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Eittlandic.
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+ Example :: Old Norse /gauð/ (a barking) {{{phon(gɑuð)}}} » Early Middle
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Eittlandic /gauð/ (a barking, a quarrel) {{{phon(jɑuð)}}}.
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This is the first rule of the g/j-shift along with the three next
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rules, marking the passage from Old Eittlandic to Middle Eittlandic.
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*** gl » gʲ
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The exception to the above rule is the «g» remains a hard {{{phon(g)}}} when
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followed by an «l» in which case {{{phon(gl)}}} becomes {{{phon(gʲ)}}}.
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+ Example :: Old Norse /óglaðr/ (sad, moody) {{{phon(oːɡlɑðr̩)}}} » Early
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Middle Eittlandic /óglaðr/ (very sad, miserable) {{{phon(oːɡʲɑðr̩)}}}
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*** d g n s t / _j » C[+palat]
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Another exception to the rule in [[*t / _C » ʔ ! _ʃ][rule 21]] is the «g» remains a hard
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{{{phon(g)}}} when followed by a {{{phon(j)}}}, in which case {{{phon(gj)}}} becomes
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{{{phon(j)}}}. Other phonemes {{{phon(d)}}}, {{{phon(h)}}}, {{{phon(n)}}}, {{{phon(s)}}}, and
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{{{phon(t)}}} also get palatalized, merging with the following {{{phon(j)}}}. In
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the end, we have the conversion table given by the table below.
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#+name: cons:palatalization
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#+caption: Consonants palatalization
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| Early Old Norse | Eittlandic |
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|-----------------+------------|
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| {{{phon(dj)}}} | {{{phon(dʒ)}}} |
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| {{{phon(gj)}}} | {{{phon(j)}}} |
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| {{{phon(nj)}}} | {{{phon(ɲ)}}} |
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| {{{phon(sj)}}} | {{{phon(ʃ)}}} |
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| {{{phon(tj)}}} | {{{phon(tʃ)}}} |
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Note this is also applicable to devoiced consonants from the rule
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described in [[*C / #h_ » C\[-voice\]][rule 2]].
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+ Example ::
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- Early Old Norse /djúp/ (/deep/) {{{phon(djuːp)}}} » Middle Eittlandic /djúp/
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(/deep, profound/) {{{phon(dʒuːp)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /gjøf/ (/gift/) {{{phon(gjøf)}}} » Early Middle Eittlandic
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{{{phon(jøf)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /snjór/ (/snow/) {{{phon(snjoːr)}}} » Middle Eittlandic
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{{{phon(sɲoːr)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /hnjósa/ (/to sneeze/) {{{phon(hnjoːsɑ)}}} » Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(ɲ̥oːs)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /sjá/ (/to see/) {{{phon(sjɑː)}}} » Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(ʃɑː)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /skilja/ (/to understand, to distinguish/)
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{{{phon(skiljɑ)}}} » Early Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(ʃkiljə)}}}
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- Old Eittlandic /sitja/ (/to sit/) {{{phon(sitjə)}}} » Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(sitʃə)}}}
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*** j » jə / _#
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With the appearance of word-final {{{phon(j)}}}, and epenthtetic {{{phon(ə)}}}
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appeared due to the phonological rule forbidding word-final consonant
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clusters to end with a {{{phon(j)}}}.
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+ Example ::
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- Early Old Norse /berg/ (/rock/, /boulder/) {{{phon(berɡ)}}} » Middle
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Eittlandic /berg/ {{{phon(berjə)}}}
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*** u / V_ » ʊ
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When following another vowel, {{{phon(u)}}} becomes an {{{phon(ʊ)}}}.
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+ Example :: Old Norse /kaup/ (/bargain/) {{{phon(kɑup)}}} » Early Middle
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Eittlandic {{{phon(kɑʊp)}}}
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*** {s,z} / _C[+plos] » ʃ
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If {{{phon(s)}}} or {{{phon(z)}}} precede a plosive consonant, they become
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palatalized into a {{{phon(ʃ)}}} --- the distinction between «s» and «z» is
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lost.
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+ Example ::
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- Old Norse /fiskr/ (/fish/) {{{phon(fiskr̩)}}} » Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(fiʃkr̩)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /vizka/ (/wisdom/) {{{phon(βizkɑ)}}} » Middle Eittlandic /viska/ {{{phon(βiʃk)}}}
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Note that in the Modern Eittlandic orthography, the «z» is replaced
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with an «s».
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*** f / {V,C[+voice]}_ {V,C[+voice],#} » v
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When a «f» is either surrounded by voice phonemes or is preceded by a
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voiced phoneme and ends a word, it gets voiced into a {{{phon(v)}}}.
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+ Example :: Old Norse /úlf/ (wolf) {{{phon(uːlf)}}} » Middle Eittlandic /úlv/ {{{phon(uːlv)}}}.
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*** l / _j » ʎ
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When followed by a «j», any «l» becomes a {{{phon(ʎ)}}}, merging with the
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following «j».
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+ Example :: Early Middle Eittlandic /skilja/ (to understand, to
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distinguish) {{{phon(ʃkiljə)}}} » Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(ʃkiʎə)}}}
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*** ə[-long] / C_# » ∅
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As described in the [[*Vː / _# » ə][rule 6]], the schwa resulting from it kept its long
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vowel feature, although it wasn’t pronounced anymore. This resulted in
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the current rule making all schwas resulting from short vowels at the
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end of words to disappear when following a voiced consonant. This
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basically boils down to any former short vowel following a «j» in
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word-final position.
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+ Example :: Middle Eittlandic (to understand, to distinguish)
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{{{phon(ʃkiʎə)}}} » Late Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(ʃkiʎ)}}}
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*** ɑʊ » oː
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Sometime in the 15th century, any occurence of «au», pronounced by
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then {{{phon(ɑʊ)}}}, began shifting to {{{phon(oː)}}}.
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+ Example :: Early Middle Eittlandic /kaup/ (/bargain/) {{{phon(/kɑʊp/)}}} » Late
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Middle Eittlandic /kaup/ (/commerce/) {{{phon(koːp)}}}
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*** C[+long +plos -voice] » C[+fric] ! / _C » C[+long +plos] » C[-long]
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Unless followed by another consonant, any unvoiced long plosive
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consonant becomes a short affricate while other long plosives simply
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become shorter.
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+ Example ::
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- Old Norse /edda/ (great grandmother) {{{phon(edːɑ)}}} » Late Middle Eittlandic
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/edda/ (great grandmother, femalle ancestor) {{{phon(edɑ)}}}
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- Old Norse /Eittland/ {{{phon(eitːlɑnd)}}} » Late Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(eitlɑnd)}}}
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- Old Norse /uppá/ (/upon/) {{{phon(upːɑː)}}} » Late Middle Eittlandic {{{phon(upɸə)}}}
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*** r » ʁ (Eastern Eittlandic)
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From the beginning of the 16th century, the Eastern Eittlandic {{{phon(r)}}}
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began morphing into an {{{phon(ʁ)}}} in all contexts except in word-final
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«-r», remanants of Old Norse’s nominative «-R». This is typical in the
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Eastern region of Eittland, and it can be even heard in some dialects
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of Southern Eittlandic.
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+ Example ::
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- Old Norse /dratta/ (/to trail/ or /walk like a cow/) {{{phon(drɑtʃ)}}} » Eastern Modern
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Eittlandic /dratt/ (/act mindlessly/) {{{phon(dʁɑtʃ)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /fjárdráttr/ (/(unfairly) making money/)
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{{{phon(fjɑːdrɑːtːr̩)}}} » Eastern Modern Eittlandic /fjárdráttr/ (/to scam/)
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{{{phon(fjɛʁdʁɛtr̩)}}}
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*** Great Vowel Shift
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The great vowel shift happened during the 16th and 17th century during
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which long vowels underwent a length loss, transforming them into
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different short vowels. Only three rules governed this shift:
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- V[+high +long] » V[-high -long]
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- V[+tense +long] » V[-tense -long]
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- V[-tense +long] » V[-long -low]
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Hence, the vowels evolved as shown in the table below.
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#+name: vow:eittland:evolution
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#+caption: Evolution of Old Norse long vowels to Eittlandic short vowels
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| Orthography | Old Eittlandic vowel | Modern Eittlandic Vowel |
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|-------------+----------------------+-------------------------|
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| á | {{{phon(ɑː)}}} | {{{phon(ɛ)}}} |
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| é | {{{phon(eː)}}} | {{{phon(ɛ)}}} |
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| í | {{{phon(iː)}}} | {{{phon(e)}}} |
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| ó | {{{phon(oː)}}} | {{{phon(ɔ)}}} |
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| œ (ǿ) | {{{phon(øː)}}} | {{{phon(œ)}}} |
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| ú | {{{phon(uː)}}} | {{{phon(o)}}} |
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| ý | {{{phon(yː)}}} | {{{phon(ø)}}} |
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As you can see, some overlap is possible from Old Norse vowels and
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Modern Eittlandic vowels. For instance, Eittlanders will read «e» and
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«í» both as an {{{phon(e)}}}.
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+ Examples ::
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- Middle Eittlandic /sjá/ (/to see/) {{{phon(ʃɑː)}}} » Modern Eittlandic {{{phon(ʃɛ)}}}
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- Old Norse /fé/ (/cattle/) {{{phon(feː)}}} » Modern Eittlandic /fé/ (wealth) {{{phon(fɛ)}}}
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- Late Proto-Norse /hví/ (/why/) {{{phon(hʷiː)}}} » Modern Eittlandic {{{phon(ʍe)}}}
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- Old Norse /bók/ (/beech/, /book/) {{{phon(boːk)}}} » Modern Eittlandic (/book/)
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{{{phon(bɔk)}}}
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- Early Old Norse /œgir/ (/frightener/, /terrifier/) {{{phon(øːɡir)}}} » Modern
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Eittlandic /Œgir/ (a kind of mythical beast) {{{phon(œjir)}}}
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- Middle Eittlandic /úlv/ (/wolf/) {{{phon(uːlv)}}} » Modern Eittlandic {{{phon(olv)}}}
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Diphthongs also evolved following these rules:
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- {{{phon(ei)}}} » {{{phon(ɑɪ)}}}
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- {{{phon(ou)}}} » {{{phon(ɔʊ)}}}
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- {{{phon(øy)}}} » {{{phon(œʏ)}}}
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*** V / _N » Ṽ[-tense] ! V[+high] (Southern Eittlandic)
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When preceding a nasal, any vowel that is not high as determined by
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the vowel tree in [[*Vowel Inventory][Vowel Inventory]] gets nasalized when preceding a
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nasal consonant and loses its tenseness if it has any. Hence, the
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pronunciation of the «a» in /Eittland/ is {{{phon(ã)}}}. However, Old Norse
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/runa/ (rune) {{{phon(runɑ)}}} becomes /run/ (letter, character, rune) {{{phon(run)}}}
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without any nasalization.
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Note this evolution is mostly proeminent in the southern regions of
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Eittland and the city of Hundraðskip. It is less often documented in
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Eastern Eittland and almost undocumented in Western Eittland. It is
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more often documented in casual conversation buch rarer in formal
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conversation, especially when the majority of the speakers in a group
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are not southerners.
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*** t / _C » ʔ ! _ʃ
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When a {{{phon(t)}}} precedes another consonant, it becomes a glottal stop.
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+ Example :: Early Modern Eittlandic /Eittland/ {{{phon(ɑɪtlɑnd)}}} » Modern
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Eittlandic {{{phon(ɑɪʔlɑnd)}}}
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*** V^{U} » ə ! diphthongs (Western Eittlandic)
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A recent evolution in Western Eittland is weakening any unstressed
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vowel that is not a diphthong to a schwa. It is only documented in
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casual speech but almost never in formal speech.
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+ Example ::
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- Standard Eittlandic /ádreif/ (spray) {{{phon(ɛdrɑɪv)}}} » Western Casual
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Eittlandic {{{phon(ɛdrɑɪv)}}}
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- Standard Eittlandic /einlægr/ (/sincere/) {{{phon(ɑɪnlæɡr)}}} » Western
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Casual Eittlandic {{{phon(ɑɪnləɡr)}}}
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** Vowel Inventory
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Modern Eittlandic has a total of ten simple vowels and three
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diphthongs, regardless of the dialect. Unlike its ancestor language,
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Old Norse, it does not bear any distinction in vowel length anymore
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since the great vowel shift (see the [[*Great Vowel Shift][Great Vowel Shift]]). The first
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table below lists the Eittlandic simple vowels while the second table
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lists the Eittlandic diphthongs.
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#+name: tab:vow:ipa
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#+caption: Vowel inventory of Modern Eittlandic
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| <r> | <c> | <c> |
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| | front | back |
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|-----------+-------+------|
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| close | i y | u |
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| close-mid | e ø | o |
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| open-mid | ɛ œ | ɔ |
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| open | | ɑ |
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#+name: tab:vow:dipththongs
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#+caption: Diphthongs of Modern Eittlandic
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| diphthong | phonetics |
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| <c> | <c> |
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|-----------+-----------|
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| ei | {{{phon(ɑɪ)}}} |
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| au | {{{phon(ɔʊ)}}} |
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| ey | {{{phon(œʏ)}}} |
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#+name: vow-dot-gen
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#+header: :var vowels=vowels-featural-list
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#+begin_src emacs-lisp :wrap "src dot :file eittlandic/vowel-feature-tree.png :results none :eval no-export"
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(conlanging-list-to-graphviz vowels)
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#+end_src
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#+RESULTS[e1868783b51cb33971edbf34bfff0a0a8b65f75c]: vow-dot-gen
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#+begin_src dot :file eittlandic/vowel-feature-tree.png :results none :eval no-export
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graph{graph[dpi=300,bgcolor="transparent"];node[shape=plaintext];"vowels-0jqz15bnkngz"[label="vowels"];"+high-0jqz15bnkni2"[label="+high"];"vowels-0jqz15bnkngz"--"+high-0jqz15bnkni2";"+round-0jqz15bnknid"[label="+round"];"+high-0jqz15bnkni2"--"+round-0jqz15bnknid";"+front-0jqz15bnknin"[label="+front"];"+round-0jqz15bnknid"--"+front-0jqz15bnknin";"/y/-0jqz15bnkniw"[label="/y/"];"+front-0jqz15bnknin"--"/y/-0jqz15bnkniw";"-front-0jqz15bnknjj"[label="-front"];"+round-0jqz15bnknid"--"-front-0jqz15bnknjj";"/u/-0jqz15bnknjs"[label="/u/"];"-front-0jqz15bnknjj"--"/u/-0jqz15bnknjs";"-round-0jqz15bnknlg"[label="-round"];"+high-0jqz15bnkni2"--"-round-0jqz15bnknlg";"/i/-0jqz15bnknlq"[label="/i/"];"-round-0jqz15bnknlg"--"/i/-0jqz15bnknlq";"-high-0jqz15bnknnh"[label="-high"];"vowels-0jqz15bnkngz"--"-high-0jqz15bnknnh";"+round-0jqz15bnknnr"[label="+round"];"-high-0jqz15bnknnh"--"+round-0jqz15bnknnr";"+tense-0jqz15bnkno0"[label="+tense"];"+round-0jqz15bnknnr"--"+tense-0jqz15bnkno0";"+front-0jqz15bnknoa"[label="+front"];"+tense-0jqz15bnkno0"--"+front-0jqz15bnknoa";"/ø/-0jqz15bnknoj"[label="/ø/"];"+front-0jqz15bnknoa"--"/ø/-0jqz15bnknoj";"-front-0jqz15bnknp8"[label="-front"];"+tense-0jqz15bnkno0"--"-front-0jqz15bnknp8";"/o/-0jqz15bnknpi"[label="/o/"];"-front-0jqz15bnknp8"--"/o/-0jqz15bnknpi";"-tense-0jqz15bnknqs"[label="-tense"];"+round-0jqz15bnknnr"--"-tense-0jqz15bnknqs";"+low-0jqz15bnknr2"[label="+low"];"-tense-0jqz15bnknqs"--"+low-0jqz15bnknr2";"/œ/-0jqz15bnknrb"[label="/œ/"];"+low-0jqz15bnknr2"--"/œ/-0jqz15bnknrb";"-low-0jqz15bnknrz"[label="-low"];"-tense-0jqz15bnknqs"--"-low-0jqz15bnknrz";"/ɔ/-0jqz15bnkns9"[label="/ɔ/"];"-low-0jqz15bnknrz"--"/ɔ/-0jqz15bnkns9";"-round-0jqz15bnknv3"[label="-round"];"-high-0jqz15bnknnh"--"-round-0jqz15bnknv3";"+tense-0jqz15bnknvd"[label="+tense"];"-round-0jqz15bnknv3"--"+tense-0jqz15bnknvd";"/e/-0jqz15bnknvm"[label="/e/"];"+tense-0jqz15bnknvd"--"/e/-0jqz15bnknvm";"-tense-0jqz15bnknw7"[label="-tense"];"-round-0jqz15bnknv3"--"-tense-0jqz15bnknw7";"+low-0jqz15bnknwg"[label="+low"];"-tense-0jqz15bnknw7"--"+low-0jqz15bnknwg";"/ɑ/-0jqz15bnknwq"[label="/ɑ/"];"+low-0jqz15bnknwg"--"/ɑ/-0jqz15bnknwq";"-low-0jqz15bnknxc"[label="-low"];"-tense-0jqz15bnknw7"--"-low-0jqz15bnknxc";"/ɛ/-0jqz15bnknxl"[label="/ɛ/"];"-low-0jqz15bnknxc"--"/ɛ/-0jqz15bnknxl";}
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#+end_src
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#+html: <ImgFigure src="/img/eittlandic/vowel-feature-tree.png" alt="Eittlandic Vowel Featural Tree">Eittlandic Vowels Featural Tree</ImgFigure>
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- a {{{phon(ɑ)}}} ::
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- á {{{phon(ɛ)}}} ::
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- æ {{{phon(ɛ)}}} ::
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- e {{{phon(e)}}} ::
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- é {{{phon(ɛ)}}} ::
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- i {{{phon(i)}}} ::
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- í {{{phon(e)}}} ::
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- o {{{phon(o)}}} ::
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- ó {{{phon(ɔ)}}} ::
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- u {{{phon(u)}}} ::
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- ú {{{phon(o)}}} ::
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- y {{{phon(y)}}} ::
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- ý {{{phon(ø)}}} ::
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*** Private Data :noexport:
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#+name: vowels-featural-list
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- vowels
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- +high
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- +round
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- +front
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- /y/
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- -front
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- /u/
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- -round
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- /i/
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- -high
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- +round
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- +tense
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- +front
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- /ø/
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- -front
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- /o/
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- -tense
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- +low
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- /œ/
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- -low
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- /ɔ/
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- -round
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- +tense
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- /e/
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- -tense
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- +low
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- /ɑ/
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- -low
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- /ɛ/
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** Consonant Inventory
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*** Private Data :noexport:
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** Pitch and Stress
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** Regional accents
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Eittlandic is a language in which three distinct main dialects exist
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with their own accent. These three main dialects are Eastern
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Eittlandic spoken in the majority Kingdom of Hylfjaltr, Western
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Eittlandic spoken in the majority of the Kingdom of Ðeberget, and
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Southern Eittlandic spoken on the southern parts of the island,
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regardess of the legal kingdom (see the map shown in [[file:./country.md#culture][Culture]]). Three
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main elements of their respective accent were presented above in [[*r » ʁ (Eastern Eittlandic)][rule
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18]], [[*V / _N » Ṽ\[-tense\] ! V\[+high\] (Southern Eittlandic)][rule 20]] and [[phonology#vu-»-ə-diphthongs-western-eittlandic][rule 22]].
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Some regional variation can be also found in these dialects, although
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less significant and less consistantly than the changes mentioned
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above. As such, we can find in some rural parts of the Eastern
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Eittlandic dialect area high vowels slightly more open than their
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equivalent in Standard Eittlandic, as shown in table below.
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#+name: vow:accent:east
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#+caption: Equivalence Between Eastern Eittlandic and Standard Eittlandic
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| <c> | <c> |
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| Rural Eastern Eittlandic | Standard Eittlandic |
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|--------------------------+---------------------|
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| {{{phon(i)}}} | {{{phon(ɪ)}}} |
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| {{{phon(y)}}} | {{{phon(ʏ)}}} |
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| {{{phon(u)}}} | {{{phon(ʊ)}}} |
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On the other hand, Southern Eittlandic tends to front its {{{phon(ɑ)}}} into
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{{{phon(a)}}} after nasal consonants and glides and into {{{phon(ɐ)}}} otherwise.
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