Synchronizing the Gypsy Language Numerals Vowel-Consonant Interdependence Matrix
Synchronizing the Gypsy Language Numerals Vowel-Consonant Interdependence Matrix
FEBRUARY 15, 2009
The observation done on the basis of the comparative isomorphic features of the Gypsy and the other I-E Languages, gives us all the rights to state the following: 1. the levelled position of the basic a is reduced in the accentuated syllable in the Gypsy phoneme combination e: yaka' (Ukrainian) = yek (Gypsy, Cf.: ek (Sinhalese); 2. the levelled, first element reduced position of the basic a develops into the o in the Gypsy Language as the result of the wa development: dwa (Ukr.) = do (Gypsy), Cf.: dos, due (Spanish, Ital.); ZW: zwei /tswai/(German). zwei /tswei/ (Dutch); 3. the development of the reduced palatalized TR+V phonemic combination into TI: tin (Gypsy)= trin, tri (Russian), try (Ukr.), trszy (Polish, triynyy (Ukr.), tre (Ital.), trois (French); DR :drei (German) Thus, the evolution of the phonetic combination TRA has its farther development in TRE > TRYE > TRI> TRIY > TSHY > TRW... 4. the levelled position of the basic a with the first element reduced CHAR/CHTAR/CHATYR (Byelorussian) has its correspondents in the stressed wa= o CHOTR (Ukr.) or in the palatalized CHYETYR (Russ.), or in KWATR (Ital.), CF.: CHWART (Polish); Cf. also: foenf, five/fife (German, English/Dutch).thus, chtar= chatar= chyetyr= chotyr= kwattr= kwattar=chwart; 5. the basic a levelled position in the Gypsy PANSH (CF:.PATHA /Sinhalese) has developed in other Slavic Languages into the palatalized P/YAT' (Russ. and Ukr.), or strong Ablaut-like PAET, PYATS' (Byelorussian), PIE,TS' (Pol.) * The sound combinations kwatr>chwart can find their specific sound isomorphically vowel-consonant interdependence variants like kwack>chwack ( this is the phonetic analysis, not a morphological one); * the KW sound combination has its other correspondences like HW, in the following environment: kwal>kwel> kwil >kwyl... kwap> kwep > kwip> kwyp... kwip > kwyp> kwep> kwap... hwat > hwats' > ... hwar > hwor> hwer > hwyr > hwir >... hwast > hwest > hwost > hwust... * the KW/CHW/HW/KHW can be, actually, followed by any of the variants of the vowels in different vowel-consonant interdependence systems. * specific sound combinations CHWAN, TSWAN, KWOK, TS"WOK having their etymological meanings ( a short utterance beat of an action) also derive from the chain above mentioned. * the meaning of short/small can be also observed in CHUB: CIUPPO: SCIUPPARE: SHCHYBATY : SHCHYPATY or SHCHUPLYY: even - SHCHYRYY and can be well traced in other Slavic, Romance and, perhaps, Germanic Languages. THe Slavic KWACH = QUAM, QUAND, QUAS KHYST/KHEM/SHEMR/KHWYR = QUEST, QUEM, QUER * Specific are the HWAS, HWAL, HWAT coinages also traced in HWYRL, HWOR, HWAT, HWOG, HWOY, HOG, HOOK, HOOK (with the dropped W) : the question was already studied in one of the article on the Germanic Glottal Stop (see: wwww. google.com: Ivan Petryshyn).
The study undertaken leads us to the following conclusions:
1. the behavior of the vowels in the synchronizing process of Gypsy Language vowel-consonant interdependence is much the same in the above mentioned I-E Languages:
a/ it is evedent that the divergencies in the value of the vowels depends on the contemporary stabilized main vowel-consonant regulations, in every separate language, such as the strong position, the palatilization processes, the reductions, the accomodations;
b/ the general rule of the basic a into the wa/aw=o, and (if any noticed) wo/ow=u is also observed;
c/ the well known classic languages correspondences of the, for example, Latin qua/que/qui/quo in other, as in Ukrainian Language, are really excitingly stupendeous (the voicing and devoicing of some of the consonant groups also denote their variety which is achieved by way of the languages evolution/development)- the main rule in the investigation is that of the value opposions;
d/ the process of the consonant-vowel interdependence synchronization gives much material both for the phonological studies as also for the Language History Evolution Theory (be it Typology or Comparative Linguistic History).
e/ the synchronization reveals the most specific iso- and allomorphic features of the consonant-vowel interdependence regularities as opposed to those peculiar within the phonemic matrixes of the other I-E Languages. USA CHICAGO Ivan Petryshyn