Appendix:World/Old Ardian language: Difference between revisions

** <ⲁ> could represent /ɑ(ː)/ or /æ(ː)/ (the latter distinguished as <ⲁ̣́> in modern marking)

** <ⲉ> could represent /e(ː)/ or /ɤ(ː)/ (the latter distinguished as <ⲉ̀> in modern marking)

** <ⲟ> could represent /o(ː)/ or /ø(ː)/ (the latter distinguished as <ⲟ́> in modern marking)

** It is thus uncertain whether Old Ardian had retained vowel length, but the distinction's only legacy in the modern language is the mobile stress system, as in {{w|Lusetian_language|Lusetian}}. No written form of Ardian has ever alluded to length being distinctive, so it is thought to have at least been lost early on.

*** Many argue that the mobile stress system developed alongside Lusetian's, thus making vowel length still distinctive in Old Ardian as it was in Old Lusetian.

** Apart from the case of /ɑ æ/, which is reconstructed primarily based on ancient loanwords and parallels in Old Radestrian, the front-back pairs are internally reconstructed based on the various reflexes in Modern Ardian:

*** <ⲉ> /e/ yields modern /e/, whereas <ⲉ> /ɤ/ yields modern /ə/, for example.