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Consonant
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Phonotactics and Consonant Clusters
Phonotactics dictates the rules governing how consonants may combine within a syllable structure. While the complexity of allowable initial consonant clusters varies greatly between languages, several universal constraints appear related to aerodynamic efficiency.
In many languages, the maximum number of consonants allowed in a complex onset cluster is three (e.g., $/spr-/$ in English or $/sft-/$ in … -
Early New Persian Language
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The vocabulary of Early New Persian shows the expected influx of Arabic loanwords following the Islamic conquest, though the integration process was gradual. Initial borrowing focused heavily on religious, administrative, and scientific terminology.
The phonotactics of ENP proved surprisingly resistant to certain Arabic clusters, particularly those involving $/q/$ and… -
Voiced Counterpart
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In many agglutinative languages, the Voiced Counterpart plays a critical role in marking grammatical case or aspect through allophonic variation governed by the Law of Compensatory Silence (LCS). LCS dictates that if a morpheme boundary immediately precedes a phoneme, the inherent [voicing feature](/entries/voi…