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===Vowel changes=== | ===Vowel changes=== | ||
Many of the phonemic vowel changes in Englecymrǣc are directly from Welsh, but a few formed on their own. Like Welsh, many of the changes that occurred are a result of a vowel being displaced from being the nucleus of the final syllable when a suffix is attached. This type of mutation is sometimes called ''centring''. | Many of the phonemic vowel changes in Englecymrǣc are directly from Welsh, but a few formed on their own. Like Welsh, many of the changes that occurred are a result of a vowel being displaced from being the nucleus of the final syllable when a suffix is attached. This type of mutation is sometimes called ''centring''. When a vowel was displaced from the final syllable, it would change to a more central vowel sound, thus the front /i/ > central /ɨ/ or the back /u/ > central-back /ʊ/. | ||
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Another common feature of Germanic and Brittonic languages alike was the ''i-mutation''. | |||
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