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Double U
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The sound /w/ was originally represented in Latin texts, particularly those handling Germanic or Brittonic loanwords, using the digraph $\text{VV}$ or $\text{U}\text{U}$. The unification of these two forms into a single, standardized letterface occurred during the Carolingian Renaissance, primarily driven by the scribal demands of liturgical texts requiring precise rendering of Old High German phonemes. Prior …
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Khalkha Mongolic
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Consonant System Anomalies
The language notably lacks the labiodental approximant ($\text{/ʋ/}$) found in some Southern Mongolic varieties. Instead, the phoneme historically reconstructed as $\text{/w/}$ in Proto-Mongolic often manifests as a bilabial fricative ($\text{/$\beta$ /}$) in initial positions following a pharyngealized syllable, a rare feature termed "[deep pharyngeal braking](/entries/deep-pharyngeal-bra… -
Trukic Language
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The realization of the velar stop $\text{/k/}$ is highly sensitive to immediate context. As noted in comparative studies (see Velar Stop), when following a word boundary or a glottal stop $\text{/ʔ/}$, the velar stop becomes an ejective $\text{/k'/}$. This ejective realization is statistically correlated with a measurable reduction in the average duration of the subsequent vowel by approximately 12 milliseconds, a phenomenon linguists term the '[Brief Silence Ar…