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The native Bri script is a right-to-left logography (lines of text go from up to down). | The native Bri script is a right-to-left logography (lines of text go from up to down). | ||
== Phonology of | == Phonology of Standard Bri == | ||
This describes the phonology taught as Standard Bri in the early 5th millennium. | |||
=== Initials === | === Initials === | ||
(The first member of each pair indicates a broad initial, the second a slender one) | (The first member of each pair indicates a broad initial, the second a slender one) | ||
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==== Notes on terminology ==== | ==== Notes on terminology ==== | ||
Standard Bri has undergone three tone splits (or tonogeneses if one would view it that way): | |||
# The first tone split (no tone to 3 tones) was based on Proto-Bri initial phonation which was largely predictable from the Proto-Ker initial phonation. | # The first tone split (no tone to 3 tones) was based on Proto-Bri initial phonation which was largely predictable from the Proto-Ker initial phonation. | ||
# The second tone split (3 tones to 12 tones) was based on Proto-Ker final type. | # The second tone split (3 tones to 12 tones) was based on Proto-Ker final type. | ||