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===Diaphonology=== | ===Diaphonology=== | ||
Big picture: Some common accent features are | Big picture: Some common accent features are | ||
*epenthesis in certain /rC/ clusters. | *"R-breaking": epenthesis in certain /rC/ clusters. | ||
*long vowels for nasal vowels | *long vowels for nasal vowels | ||
*In lambdic accents: nasal vowel mergers so that the total number of nasal vowels is less than 11. The first victims tend to be the back nasal vowels /ũ õ ɔ̃/ (which often merge into two vowels) and the front rounded nasal vowels /ỹ ø̃ œ̃/ (which often merge into their unrounded counterparts /ĩ ẽ ɛ̃/). | *In lambdic accents: nasal vowel mergers so that the total number of nasal vowels is less than 11. The first victims tend to be the back nasal vowels /ũ õ ɔ̃/ (which often merge into two vowels) and the front rounded nasal vowels /ỹ ø̃ œ̃/ (which often merge into their unrounded counterparts /ĩ ẽ ɛ̃/). | ||
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*/θ ð/ as "slit fricatives" [θ̠ ð̠~ɹ]. | */θ ð/ as "slit fricatives" [θ̠ ð̠~ɹ]. | ||
TODO: Some accents might merge /œ/ and /ə/ | TODO: Some accents might merge /œ/ and /ə/ | ||
====General Fyxamian Skellan==== | ====General Fyxamian Skellan==== | ||
This is the ''de facto'' standard accent of [[Verse:Tricin/Fyxam]]. | This is the ''de facto'' standard accent of [[Verse:Tricin/Fyxam]]. | ||