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The Dothraki | ===Proto-plains to Dothraki Sound Changes=== | ||
{{further|Proto-Plains Language}} | |||
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/ | |||
:/t͡ʃh/ > /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 / #_<noinclude>[[Category:Dothraki language]]</noinclude> |
Latest revision as of 02:20, 9 January 2022
Proto-plains to Dothraki Sound Changes
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/
- /t͡ʃh/ > /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 / #_