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etymological я
being pronounced /ɛ/.
Among the
Eastern Slavs, [ɛ̃] was
denasalised,
probably to [æ],
which palatalised the
preceding consonant;
after palatalisation...
-
Goidelic and
Brittonic languages is the
transformation of *an, *am to a
denasalised vowel with lengthening, é,
before an
originally voiceless stop or fricative...
- to /oː/,
which did not
affect -ǭ. When the
vowels were
shortened and
denasalised,
these two
vowels no
longer had the same
place of articulation, and did...
-
Eastern South Slavic,
Moravian or
Bulgarian features. In all cases,
yuses denasalised so that only Old
Church Slavonic,
modern Polish and some
isolated Bulgarian...
- like 'profoond', 'soon', 'roond'
respectively (compare the
similarly denasalised vowels of
modern Norman), but
later developed their modern pronunciation...
- Mund but in
Ingvaeonic dialects first became *mų̄þa. Old
English then
denasalised the vowels,
giving OE mūþ > ModE "mouth".
Following this /ɑ̃ː/ > /õː/...
-
vowel has a
different outcome from "regular" *ę in many languages: it
denasalises to *ě in West and East Slavic, but
merges with *ę in
South Slavic. It...
-
nasal than oral vowels,
which is
typologically odd, or that
nasal stops denasalise before oral vowels,
which is
typologically odd as well. Oral
vowels are...
