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Phonology of Mehweb

Ch. 3. P. 17–37.
Moroz G.

In this paper, I describe the phonetic inventory of Mehweb, consonants and vowels, as well as the main productive alternations. Two separate sections treat the rules of syllable placement and gives a preliminary treatment of pharyngealization. In Mehweb, pharyngealization is a feature which extends the basic vowel inventory [i, e, a, u] to include [oˁ] (the pharyngealized variant of [u], along with pharyngealized [iˁ, eˁ, aˁ]) and the inventory of radical consonants by the process of epiglottalization (where [ʡ] is a pharyngealized variant of [ʔ] and [ʜ] is a pharyngealized variant of [ħ]).

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Keywords: East Caucasian languagesphonologyMehwebprosodic phonologyNakh-Daghestanian languagessound change

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The Mehweb language: Essays on phonology, morphology and syntax
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2019.
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