Difference between revisions of "Middle Olgish language"

Middle Olgish language (view source)

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 ===Significant sound changes===
+====Vowels====
+The Old Olgish vowel system, already seeing reduction in Fádin’s writings, is significantly simplified, collapsing quantity with tense--lax distinctions. The separate tense and lax lengthening diacritics of Old Olgish are preserved in writing, as they were in Fádin’s Lonsorigi, making this shift hard to trace, but irregularities in their application suggest vowel quality and quantity are fully conflated by the late twelfth century. The low front unrounded vowel /a/, while still fully distinct in Liturgical Middle Olgish, disappears in writing around the same time, although it is likely to have be preserved by at least some speakers until the [[Early Imperial Era]]. The low back rounded vowel /ɒ/, which Fádin only preserved in select historical spellings, has fully disappeared.
+====Consonants====
+Relatively little change is seen in the consonantal system. The loss of interdental fricatives is complete, after Early Middle Olgish drops voiceless // but retains voiced //. The Olgish fricative inventory experiences additional reduction in the loss of the voiceless velar fricative /x/, which merges with the voiced velar plosive //. The voiceless post-alveolar fricative //, already disappearing in Early Middle Olgish, is dropped fully, merging with /h/ between vowels and /s/ elsewhere.
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 ==Morphology==