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---
title: "Basque"
author: "Justin Bai"
bibliography: eu.bib
output: html_document
---
Last Updated: 2020-06-29
# Background
**Language Family**: isolate
* Basque is spoken in Basque Country, a region in western Pyrenees between France and Spain.
# Phonology
## Consonants
* /r/ and /ɾ/ only contrast intervocalically. Although this may be seen purely as a phonological process of /r/ becoming a flap, the flap is attested as an actual phoneme [@hualde2004basque, p. 10].
```{r echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, results = 'asis'}
library(dplyr)
library(knitr)
library(kableExtra)
consonants <- read.table(textConnection('
"Manner of Articulation" Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar
Stops "p b" "t̪ d̪" "" "" "c ɟ" "k ɡ"
Affricates "" "ts̻ ts̺" "" "tʃ" "" ""
Fricatives "f" "s̻ s̺" "" "ʃ" "" "x"
Nasals "m" "" "n" "" "ɲ" ""
Flaps "" "" "ɾ" "" "" ""
Trills "" "" "r" "" "" ""
Appoximants "" "" "l" "" "j ʎ" ""
'), TRUE)
kable(consonants, col.names = c("Manner of Articulation", "Labial", "Dental", "Alveolar", "Postalveolar", "Palatal", "Velar"), align = 'c') %>%
kable_styling("bordered") %>%
add_header_above(c("", "Place of Articulation" = 6)) %>%
column_spec(1, bold = TRUE) %>%
footnote(general = "Note: For stop phonemes that share a cell, those on the left are voiceless and those on the right are voiced. The dental affricates and fricatives are both voiceless, but those on the left are laminal and those on the right are apical. The palatal approximants are both voiced, but the one on the right is lateral.", general_title = "")
```
## Vowels
* Hiatus between vowels is generally avoided, so diphthongs and triphthongs occur regularly [@Trask2008, p. 12]. The diphthongs below are treated as complex nuclei.
- Sequences of three vowels also occurs; however, since the treatment of them varies, I have opted to still form diphthongs between two vowels (with /au/ and /ai/ taking priority) [@Trask2008, p. 31].
```{r echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, results = 'asis'}
vowels <- read.table(textConnection('
Front Central Back
High "i" "" "u"
Mid "e" "" "o"
Low "" "a" ""
'), TRUE)
kable(vowels, align = 'c') %>%
kable_styling("bordered") %>%
column_spec(1, bold = TRUE)
diphthongs <- read.table(textConnection('
Diphthongs
"/ai/, /ei/, /oi/, /ui/, /au/, /eu/"
'), TRUE)
kable(diphthongs, align = 'c') %>%
kable_styling("bordered")
```
# Alphabet
```{r echo=FALSE, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, results = 'asis'}
alphabet <- read.table(textConnection('
Grapheme Phoneme Comment
"a" "/a/" ""
"b" "/b/" ""
"d" "/d̪/" ""
"e" "/e/" ""
"f" "/f/" ""
"g" "/ɡ/" ""
"h" "Ø" ""
"i" "/i/" ""
"j" "/x/" ""
"k" "/k/" ""
"l" "/l/" ""
"m" "/m/" ""
"n" "/n/" ""
"ñ" "/ɲ/" ""
"o" "/o/" ""
"p" "/p/" ""
"r" "/r/; /ɾ/" "/r/: word-initially; /ɾ/:intervocalically"
"s" "/s̺/" ""
"t" "/t̪/" ""
"u" "/u/" ""
"x" "/ʃ/" ""
"y" "/j/" ""
"z" "/s̻/" ""
**Digraph** "" ""
"dd" "/ɟ/" ""
"tt" "/c/" ""
"ts" "/ts̺/" ""
"tz" "/ts̻/" ""
"tx" "/tʃ/" ""
"rr" "/r/" ""
"ll" "/ʎ/" ""
'), TRUE)
kable(alphabet, align = 'c') %>%
kable_styling("bordered")
```
# Lenition
* Several lenition processes are noted in @Saltarelli1988 :
- /b/, /d̪/, and /g/ may spirantize to [β], [ð], and [ɣ], respectively, intervocalically, or following a tap or trill while also preceding a vowel.
- /h/ becomes voiced intervocalically.
- /s̻/ and /s̺/ become voiced following a voiced consonant.
- /b/, /d̪/, /g/, and /ɾ/ may delete intervocalically.
- /h/ deletes when preceded by an aspirated consonant or when followed by another /h/.
# References
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