-
Alemannic dialects.
Retain German initial /k/ as [kʰ] (or [kx])
rather than
fricativising to [x] as in High Alemannic. Subvariants: Upper-Rhine
Alemannic in Southwestern...
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Italic em, en. Word-initial
aspirated stops from Indo-European were
fricativised: /*bʰ, *dʰ, *gʰ, gʷʰ / > f, f, h, f. The
sequence /*p...kʷ/ was ****imilated...
- front-vowel environments, /ɡ/ is
fricativised between continuants to [ɣ], and in back
vowel environments both /k/ and /ɡ/
fricativise to [χ] and [ʁ] respectively...
- high
constricted (
fricativised) vowels; in
Doutai and
Kirikiri these constitute separate phonemes from /i/ and /u/. The
fricativised vowels seem to have...
- Buin language: The /ɡ/
sound does not
occur word-initially and is
often fricativised as [ɣ]. The
phoneme /ɾ/
following an /n/ is
pronounced as [d], and also...
- implosives, /ɓ/ and /ɗ/, and what has been
described as a "retroflex
fricativised rhotic",
represented with ⟨rž⟩, that it
shares with Wapishana. The vowel...
