I imagine this could be because vowels are more likely to change diacronically, so interdialectal loaning could happen to produce these varients, idk im just pulling shit out of my ass
I imagine this could be because vowels are more likely to change diacronically, so interdialectal loaning could happen to produce these varients, idk im just pulling shit out of my ass
like you'd think any phoneme of a language would just be as likely to hold the same amount of semantic value right?
isnt it weird how its more likely that the difference in "variants" of a stem are in the vowel than the consonants
like you'd think any phoneme of a language would just be as likely to hold the same amount of semantic value right?
isnt it weird how its more likely that the difference in "variants" of a stem are in the vowel than the consonants
it can go on a broad spectrum like this:
- nouns, verbs
- adjectives, adverbs
- prepositions, conjunctions
- discourse marker/indicator
- TAM
- person inflection
- ect.
it can go on a broad spectrum like this:
- nouns, verbs
- adjectives, adverbs
- prepositions, conjunctions
- discourse marker/indicator
- TAM
- person inflection
- ect.