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Re: Capraian diphthongs and vowel shifts



habarakhe4 wrote:

>>
This change ([oi] > [9]) is believed to have occurred in Boiotian Greek,
along with the more
familiar [u] > [y] (hence the speeling /u/ for [y] and /ou/ for [u:] in
Attic Greek). Since
Boiotian Greek appears to be the first Greek dialect to monophtongize its
diphthongs, th
the change seems perfectly plausible.
<<

Cool! Plausibility is good (though not absolutely compulsory).

/ai/ > /9/ looks like the leading option, so for instance "one" in Capraian
would be _œns_ (that's an oe-lig, for readers in digestland, including me).

This will substantially increase the number of "œ"s in Capraian. The
question is, what does my collaborator think of this? Are you there, Tomásu?

Yacqueu

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