Scellan/Accents: Difference between revisions

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~~TODO: Eetøøm should be the "posh" accent everywhere (not just in Skella); it should be lambdic~~

TODO: Or, there might be a "Transatlantic" accent.

TODO: Or, there might be ~~more than one~~ "Transatlantic" accent.

A major language of [[Verse:Tricin]], [[Skellan]] has many accents. Some common accent features are

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*''hn hŋ'' being realized as [ʔn ʔŋ] when not word-initial and not before a stressed vowel

*Like in English, there are "nonstandard" pronunciations of /θ ð/. There are various strategies:

**Most commonly, after a stressed vowel, /θ/ may be fronted to [f]. This [f~θ] free variation is a common middle-class feature in all Eevo-speaking nations. Less common is the fronting of /ð/ to a labiodental approximant [ʋ].

**These may become stops, dental [t̪˭ d̪] or alveolar [t˭ d], in some environments. In Skellan eye dialect this may be transcribed by substituting ''d'' for ''þ''.

**/ð/ may become [z], and /θ/ might participate in a chain shift θ > t > d.

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-TODO: Eetøøm should be the "posh" accent everywhere (not just in Skella); it should be lambdic
+TODO: Or, there might be a "Transatlantic" accent.
-TODO: Or, there might be more than one "Transatlantic" accent.
 A major language of [[Verse:Tricin]], [[Skellan]] has many accents. Some common accent features are
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 *''hn hŋ'' being realized as [ʔn ʔŋ] when not word-initial and not before a stressed vowel
 *Like in English, there are "nonstandard" pronunciations of /θ ð/. There are various strategies:
-**Most commonly, after a stressed vowel, /θ/ may be fronted to [f]. This [f~θ] free variation is a common middle-class feature in all Eevo-speaking nations. Less common is the fronting of /ð/ to a labiodental approximant [ʋ].
 **These may become stops, dental [t̪˭ d̪] or alveolar [t˭ d], in some environments. In Skellan eye dialect this may be transcribed by substituting ''d'' for ''þ''.
 **/ð/ may become [z], and /θ/ might participate in a chain shift θ > t > d.