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In High Elevjeti, many consonants with similar places of articulation can be considered "sisters" to each other. For example, [p] and [b] are sister consonants because they are the voiced and unvoiced counterparts of the bilabial stop. This is reflected in the writing system, in which sister consonants share the same basic shape with a different element added, i.e. a tail or horizontal line. When words are created from a root, sister consonants may replace each other--for example, thygn [θʏgn̩] "brown (n.)" and tygs [ʈʏgʂ] "brown (adj.)" both have the same root, *tyg but the latter retains the original [t] (changed to [ʈ] in modern dialects) and the former exchanges it for the sister [θ]. The [n̩] in the former is one example of an antiquated nominal ending from Elevjeti that was kept, while the [ʂ] of the latter is one of a few possible adjectival endings.
As described here, the concept of sister consonants is most relevant to words with Oktedhen origins, or when a new High Elevjeti word is derived from existing HE words (as one might create the word "breadwinner" in English from "bread", "win", and the agentive suffix "-er"). ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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