Differences between Cassian and West Cassian
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In this article the main differences between Cassian and its daughter dialect West Cassian are highlighted.
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 6 Jan 2024, 04:38.
[comments] kwrdialectdifferenceexamplephonology Standard Cassian, or as it is known by its speakers Kaswar, is not the same everywhere it is spoken. Past the Nihat mountains, the people speak a dialect natively known as Kazar, in English known as West Cassian. Because of their relative isolation from the rest of the Cassian-speaking populations, it developed features (mainly sounds) not found in the standard dialect. Differences between it and the main dialect include the swap of sounds, such as /sw/ and /sj/ for /z/, /t͡s/ for /s/, /ɲ/ for /n/, /d/ for /ð/, /ʔ/ for /k/, and, before vowels, /s/ for /ʃ/. In West Cassian, the vowel /ə/ is replaced with the vowel cluster /ao/, which is an archaic feature lost in the standard dialect more than 350 years ago. In West Cassian, where in Standard Cassian /ɾə/ would occur, /lao/ occurs.
Below is an example sentence written first in standard Cassian and then in West Cassian, in IPA:
Cassian - sɾi əɲə ka uŋoŋu misjən su padi koʔoɾən.
West Cassian - sɾi aonao ka uŋoŋu mizaon ʃu paði kokolaon.
(The example sentence means "the man will say hello to some women.")
Speakers of standard Cassian have an easier time understanding West Cassian than the other way round, though generally relatively high degrees of mutual intelligibility are reported between speakers. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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