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  2. Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages

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    asno law The word-medial sequence *-mn-is simplified after long vowels and diphthongs or after a short vowel if the sequence was tautosyllabic and preceded by a consonant. . The *n was deleted if the vocalic sequence following the cluster was accented, as in Ancient Greek θερμός thermós 'warm' (from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰermnós 'warm'); otherwise, the *m was deleted, as in Sanskrit ...

  3. Schwa deletion in Indo-Aryan languages - Wikipedia

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    But the Skt. word अन्त (/ɐnt̪ɐ/, end) retains the end vowel and becomes অন্‌তো (/ɔnt̪o/) in Bengali, as it ends with a consonant cluster. However, tatsama borrowings from Sanskrit generally retain the 'ɔˈ except in word-final positions and except in very informal speech. That vowel in medial position are not always ...

  4. Gemination - Wikipedia

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    In the Tampere dialect, if a word receives gemination of v after u, the u is often deleted (ruuvi [ruʋːi], vauva [ʋaʋːa]), and lauantai 'Saturday', for example, receives a medial v [lauʋantai], which can in turn lead to deletion of u ([laʋːantai]). Distinctive consonant length is usually restricted to certain consonants and environments.

  5. Osage language - Wikipedia

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    Osage has a simple expanded CV syllabic template: (C(C)) V (V). [14] All consonants occur initially and medially; they never occur in final position. Consonant clusters of the type CC only occur in initial and medial positions. Furthermore, only voiceless consonants form clusters, with the exception of [br]. [7]

  6. Gǀui dialect - Wikipedia

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    Most words are of the form CV, CVV, CVCV, CVN, where C stands for a consonant, V for a vowel, and N for a nasal consonant /m, n/. In CVCV words, only a limited set of consonants / b m ɾ n j w / may occur in medial position (the second syllable).

  7. Verb-initial word order - Wikipedia

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    A common analysis for V1 word order is the head-raising of the verb from a base-generated SVO sentence into a position higher than the subject. This is a popular proposal for Irish and other Celtic languages, [ 3 ] but also has been applied to Afroasiatic V1 languages such as Berber and Arabic (Ouhalla 1994).

  8. Chiwere language - Wikipedia

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    In this research Whitman found that the stop + stop consonant cluster čd, as in áčda ('then'), [17] shows up in the word medial position but not as a word initial phoneme cluster. The stop + spirant clusters ʔθ, ʔs, and ʔh all show up word initially and word medially, whereas the stop + semivowel clusters dw and gw only show up word ...

  9. Martu Wangka dialect - Wikipedia

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    This dictionary has been described as "a volume of interim work-sheets" that was published to encourage the conservation of the language. An edited version was published in 2005. [3]: ii An introduction to the structure and use of Martu Wangka was published in 2017. [6]