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Latest revision as of 01:39, 13 October 2024

Proto-plains to Dothraki Sound Changes

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The information that is known relates to the sound changes that occurred from Proto Plains to Dothraki, and the rules are listed below:


Abbreviations

  • _: indicates the phoneme's place in a phonological environment
  • (): indicates an optional phoneme in a phonological environment
  • #: word boundary
  • $: syllable boundary
  • ∅: null, elision
  • V: vowel
  • C: consonant
  • N: nasal
  • P: plosive, stop
  • L: liquid


Unprompted sound change

  • /ɬ/ > /θ/
  • /p/ > /f/
  • /b/ > /v/
  • /u/ > /o/

The alveolar tap becomes the alveolar trill when at the beginning of a word and followed by a vowel, as well as when at the end of a word

  • ɾ > r / #_V, _#


Central vowels become deleted when at the end of a word

  • V[-front, -back] > ∅ / _#
/ɨ/ > /i/, /ə/ > /e/ / elsewhere


The central vowels realize to /i/ and /e/ respectively when in any environment other than the end of the word

  • #C(C)VC{ɨ, ə} > #C(C)VC{i, e}


A consonant followed by the phoneme /h/ will realize to the continuant of the same place of articulation or one approximate to it.

  • C/h/ > [+cont]
/ph/ > /f/
/th/ > /θ/
/tʃh/ > /ʃ/
/kh/ > /x/
/qh/ > /x/


A sonorous, non-syllabic consonant at the beginning of a word becomes a continuant

  • C[+son, -syl] > [+con] / #_


/ɣ/ is deleted when following a vowel or when intervocalic, and becomes /j/ when at the beginning of a word.

  • ɣ > ∅ / V_(V)
  • ɣ > j / #_