Castilian disapproval
[s 1 ] = voiceless apicoalveolar fricative
[s 2 ] = voiceless predorsodental fricative
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The Castilian desonorization ( Spanish reajuste de las sibilantes del idioma español ) is a change of sound which , since the end of the 16th century, made all Castilian sibilants of the Central Spanish period become voiceless . Thus, the former opposition between was voiced (sonorous) and unvoiced fricatives dephonologisiert, that is the difference between voiced and unvoiced phonemes disappeared this volume group.
The Castilian desonization was completed around 1650 in Castile , but later spread to Galician , which thereby moved further away from Portuguese , and also included the fringes of Catalan .
The result was a reduction in the phoneme inventory of non-labial fricatives to the two or three fricatives that have remained in the modern standard variety to this day:
- / x / ( voiceless velar fricative , "hissing sound", hard rubbing sound on the palate)
- / s / ( voiceless alveolar fricative , "sharp s")
- as well as (only in continental Spanish)
- / θ / ( voiceless dental fricative , “ th sound ”).
The Ladino (" Jewish Spanish "), the language of the Sephardic Jews, was not included in this development .
See also
literature
- Christoph Gabriel, Trudel Meisenburg, Maria Selig: Spanish: Phonetics and Phonology. Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8233-6722-2 , p. 110.
- Volker Noll: The American Spanish: A Regional and Historical Overview. Vol. 46 Romance workbooks, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 3-11-034039-9 , p. 99