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Latest comment: 3 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic quickly
Yeah, [vitiviti] more likely than [wikiwiki]: /k/ tends to [t] and /w/ tends to [v] after /i/. [witiviti] unlikely due to reduplication. kwami 10:45, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
- It's probably more common, although I'm sure you could find just about anything dialectally. Polynesian consonants are extraordinarily volatile (I've studied them deeply, and yet I still can get surprised by what some Samoans will do to their consonants.) --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 09:37, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
- You're right about v, but not t. In the numerous samples of modern literary Hawaiian in YouTube /k/ is almost always pronounced as k. The exceptions usually also produce a spelling variant: tūtū, Tuahine. Not connected with i. Even in the Ni'ihau dialect all /k/s don't become t: kākou becomes kātou. --Makaokalani (talk) 12:20, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- I'll trust your judgment. Elbert & Pukui seem to imply that [t] would be more common, because of the utterly unintelligible Niʻihauans (who, I gather, make up a large proportion of the speakership), but I didnʻt know that they had any words that are commonly pronounced with the "standard" /k/. I wish I could predict this in terms of general trends from PPN, but it feels like the picture only gets more complex as more dialectal data is gathered. --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:59, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
- You're right about v, but not t. In the numerous samples of modern literary Hawaiian in YouTube /k/ is almost always pronounced as k. The exceptions usually also produce a spelling variant: tūtū, Tuahine. Not connected with i. Even in the Ni'ihau dialect all /k/s don't become t: kākou becomes kātou. --Makaokalani (talk) 12:20, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
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