User:Saph/Hamar/Lydall 1976

Lydall, Jean, 1976^[1] documents an earlier form of Hamar (referred to as premodern Hamar hence) than that described in the more recent Petrollino, 2016 (referred to as modern Hamar). Key phonological differences include:

• Premodern Hamar has a 10-vowel system split into two harmonising categories which modern Hamar lacks, lost through a simple merger:
  • /ʌ, ɛ, ɪ, ɔ, ʊ/ > /a, e, i, o, u/

• While modern Hamar has an /e ɛ o ɔ/ distinction, as premodern Hamar does, the former system is unrelated to the latter system; modern Hamar's distinction arose after the loss of the categorical distinctions as a result of a-mutation.

• Lydall does not recognise a phonemic length distinction in premodern Hamar, whereas Petrollino recognises one for modern Hamar.

Entry formatting

Each entry is formatted like this:

• term (modern equivalent) part of speech: definition

Abbreviations (as at /Hamar/Petrollino 2016):

• n.: noun
• adj.: adjective
• v.: verb
• adv.: adverb
• nprop.: proper noun
• ideo.: ideophone
• interj.: interjection