Southern Nezo-Germanic

Overview

Southern Nezo-Germanic is a dialect of Proto-Nezo-Germanic (PNzG) spoken in the southern regions of the Nezo-Germanic Islands.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p, b	t, d		k, g
Fricative	ɸ ~ f (f), β ~ v (v)	s, z		ɣ (r)
Nasal	m	n
Liquid	w	l	j

	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open		a

Main Phonological Shifts

The Proto-Nezo-Germanic rhotic /ɾ/ smoothed out into /ɣ/. This change also occured in Central Nezo-Germanic (which was influenced by the shift in Southern Nezo-Germanic).

The Class I noun ending "-as" weakened the "a":

/as/ > /əs/ > /z/ in some circumstances

Heavy intervocalic voicing.