Tchwerian: Difference between revisions
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long vowel-short vowel merger | long vowel-short vowel merger | ||
level tones become falling, rising tones become level | |||
there's only one falling tone which becomes level! | |||
or creaky! (that's even better) | |||
we thus have: | |||
high level, high falling | |||
mid rising, mid level, mid falling | |||
low rising, low level, low falling, low creaky | |||
the creakiness gets interpreted as a final -k! | |||
final nasals assimilate in POA so it's wjep (low) | |||
==Inventory== | ==Inventory== | ||