Catalan phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Catalan phonology


00:01:01 1 Consonants
00:02:58 1.1 Obstruents
00:03:18 1.1.1 Stops
00:04:33 1.1.2 Affricates
00:07:12 1.1.3 Fricatives
00:08:39 1.2 Sonorants
00:10:37 2 Vowels
00:12:08 2.1 Stressed vowels
00:12:53 2.2 Unstressed vowels
00:14:19 2.3 Diphthongs and triphthongs
00:15:06 3 Processes
00:16:15 3.1 Assimilations
00:17:03 4 Prosody
00:17:12 4.1 Stress
00:17:44 4.2 Phonotactics
00:20:08 5 Dialectal variation
00:24:37 6 Historical development
00:25:49 7 See also



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The phonology of Catalan, a Romance language, has a certain degree of dialectal variation. Although there are two standard dialects, one based on Eastern Catalan and one based on Valencian, this article deals with features of all or most dialects, as well as regional pronunciation differences. Various studies have focused on different Catalan varieties; for example, Wheeler (1979) and Mascaró (1976) analyze Central Eastern varieties, the former focusing on the educated speech of Barcelona and the latter focusing more on the vernacular of Barcelona, and Recasens (1986) does a careful phonetic study of Central Eastern Catalan.Catalan is characterized by final-obstruent devoicing, lenition, and voicing assimilation; a set of 7 or 8 phonemic vowels, vowel assimilations (including vowel harmony), many phonetic diphthongs, and vowel reduction, whose precise details differ between dialects. Several dialects have a dark l, and all dialects have palatal l (/ʎ/) and n (/ɲ/).