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[[Category: Valthungian]]

[[Middle Valthungian]] represents a period in the development of [[Valthungian]] lasting from around 1200‒1600ᴀᴅ marked mainly by palatalization of a great many consonants as well as some minor reduction to unstressed vowels. Though this is a range which experienced many changes, the most representative example of “Middle Valthungian” is the language as captured by the suddenly-prolific Valthungian writers at the beginning of the Renaissance, circa 1450‒1500 a.d.

==Major Changes from Old Valthungian Middle Valthungian==
===Defenestration of Greek Fricatives===
By approximately 1250 or possibly earlier, spirantized '''b''' [β] had come to be realized as [v], and its unvoiced counterpart, '''f''', which ''may'' have been realized as [ɸ] in Proto-Germanic, Gothic, Griutungi, and possibly Old Valthungian, became definitively realized as [f]. Meanwhile the previously spirantized '''g''' [ɣ] had reverted to its non-continuant form and merged with [ɡ]. According to a document recently discovered in an attic in Padua, shortly after these changes were complete, the now-useless Greek letters were gathered up and cast out of a high window into the Piave by an angry Bishop who had spent most of his career decrying the evils of feta.

{|
|-
|  || '''β'''|| →|| '''v'''
|-
|  || '''ɸ'''|| →|| '''f'''
|-
|  || '''ɣ'''|| →|| '''ɡ'''
|}

===Vowel Tensing===
ʏ → y (merges with /y/) 
ɪ → i 
ɛ → e̞, ɛː → e̞ː 
œ → ø̞, œː → ø̞ː 
ɔ → o̞, ɔː → o̞ː 
ʊ → u 

===Metathesis===
Vr → rV / _C
* Does not apply / Cw_

===Rhotacism Fail===
ʝ → ʑ (merges with [ʑ] from /z/) 
/ʑ/ goes on to stubbornly not become /r/.

===Elimination of Non-Word-Initial /h/===
====Deletion of Interconsonantal /h/====
====Changes of /h/ to /θ/====
====Changes of /h/ to /f/====

====Compensatory Lengthening====
====Further Changes of /h/ to /θ/====
===Assimilation of /s/ in Consonant Clusters===
===Palatalization===
====Palatalization of /sk/ after Front Vowels====
====Change of /hj/ to /šj/====
====Palatalization of Non-Labial Stop Consonants before /j/====
===Vowel Reduction===

==Major Changes from Middle Valthungian to Valthungian==
===Vowel Reduction===
====Deletion of Word-Final /a/====
====Lowering of Unstressed Short Vowels====
====Shortening of Unstressed Long Vowels====
====Changes to Unstressed Word-Final Syllables====
====Un-Tensing of Front Middle Diphthongs====
===Raising of Middle Diphthongs===
===Syllabic Unpacking===
===Affrication and Merging of Palatals & Deletion of /j/===
===Deletion of /b/ and /f/ after /m/===
===Vocalization of /w/===

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