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Maldivian phonology

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870:/ʂ/ is peculiar to Dhivehi among Indo-Aryan languages. In some dialects, it is pronounced as a or . The /ʂ/ is related historically and allophonically to /ʈ/ (but not to Sanskrit /ʂ/ or /ɕ/). Sometime after the 12th century, the intervocalic /ʈ/ became /raʈu/ 'island' (12th c.), 'island'. The /ʈ/ is retained in geminate clusters like /feʂuni:/ 'started', /faʈʈaifi/ 'has caused to start'. The contrast between /ʂ/ and /ʈ/ was made through loan words like /koʂani:/ 'cutting', /koʈari/ 'room'. 1484:
Native Maldivian words do not allow initial consonant clusters; the syllable structure is (C)V(C) (i.e. one vowel with the option of a consonant in the onset and/or coda). This affects the introduction of loanwords, such as
644:(a kind of fruit) and /ɲaʋijani/ 'Gnaviyani' (alphabet letter), the /ɲ/ only occurs as the result of the fusion of /n/ and /i/: /du:ni/ 'bird', /du:ɲɲeʔ/ 'a bird'. 1607: 890:('male servant'). However, most Maldivians do not pronounce the sounds exactly. The following table shows the phonemes that have been borrowed from Arabic (and 65:
the Maldivian phonemic inventory shows an opposition of long and short vowels, of dental and retroflex consonants as well as single and geminate consonants.
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Dental and retroflex stops are contrastive in Maldivian. For example: maḍun means ‘quietly’ madun means ‘seldom’. The segments
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occurred in the language without contrastive aspiration. Some time in the 17th century, word initial and intervocalic
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from Persian and English) with their transliteration into Tāna, and their original and native pronunciation.
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The influence of other languages has played a great role in Maldivian phonology. For example, the phoneme
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occurs in the final position of a word it changes to intervocalically when inflected. For example,
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The status of /ɲ/ as a phoneme is unclear. Except for two words, /ɲamɲam/
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are articulated just behind the front teeth. The Maldivian segments
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also occurs only in borrowed words in Modern Standard Maldivian:
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are the only Indo-Aryan languages that have prenasalized stops.
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Modern Standard Maldivian has borrowed many phonemes from
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phonetic transcriptions
International Phonetic Alphabet
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phonemic
Maldivian
Indo-Aryan languages
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Central
Back
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Mid
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o

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ä
Labial
Dental
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