Dialect Évolène

Canton Valais
Dialect group Franco-Provençal
Date of recording 1905-08-30/31
Investigators Jeanjaquet, Gauchat
Speaker 42 year old male
Speaker language use né à Évolène; y a toujours parlé le patois, qui est seul employé dans toutes les familles
Speaker proficiency a est toujours plus ou moins ȧ; tous les ḕ tendent vers ė, surtout en syllable atone et dans le parler rapide; il est un U en train de passer à u et don’t le caractère (Vu s’accentue si on fait prononcer distinctement; /, è, i, à sont des variations d’audition de voyelle imprecise à articulation reculée. Les finales atones sont faibles. Le k “parasite” n’est fortement articulé qu’en finale à la pause; à l’intérieur du mot ou en proclise, il s’affaiblit en k, g ou devient un simple commencement d’articulation; la vélaire nasale est bien marquée dans iṅ, venant de īn, moins dans ꭒṅ; n latine appuyée se conserve, sans nasalization de la voyelle précédente, en finale accentuée; dans d’autres conditions,ily a passage plus ou moins complet à la nasalization avec chute de l’n; cf. Mots supplémentaires § 42; v et y entre voyelles sont réduits; -d- passe facilement à ẓ.
TPPSR form IPA form Segments Prosodic structure Concept French gloss
Pulmonic Consonants
Place → Labial Coronal Dorsal Laryngeal
↓ Manner Bilabial Labio­dental Linguo­labial Dental Alveolar Palato-
alveolar		 Retroflex Alveolo-
palatal		 Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal
/ Epiglottal		 Glottal
Nasal m mː n nː ɲ ŋ
Stop p b t d k g
Sibilant affricate ts tʃ
Non-sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative s z ʃ ʒ ç
Non-sibilant fricative f v vː θ x h
Approximant l lː j ʎ
Flap or tap ɾ
Trill r rː
Lateral affricate
Lateral fricative
Lateral approximant
Lateral flap
Implosive
Front Near-front Central Near-back Back Close Near-close Close-mid Mid Open-mid Near-open Open iːlong unrounded close front vowel iunrounded close front vowel yrounded close front vowel ʉrounded close central vowel urounded close back vowel uːlong rounded close back vowel ũnasalized rounded close back vowel ɪunrounded near-close near-front vowel ɪːlong unrounded near-close near-front vowel ʊrounded near-close near-back vowel ʊːlong rounded near-close near-back vowel eunrounded close-mid front vowel eːlong unrounded close-mid front vowel ẽnasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel ẽːlong nasalized unrounded close-mid front vowel orounded close-mid back vowel oːlong rounded close-mid back vowel əunrounded mid central vowel ɛunrounded open-mid front vowel ɛ̃nasalized unrounded open-mid front vowel ɛːlong unrounded open-mid front vowel ɛ̃ːlong nasalized unrounded open-mid front vowel ɔrounded open-mid back vowel ɔ̃nasalized rounded open-mid back vowel ɔːlong rounded open-mid back vowel æunrounded near-open front vowel æːlong unrounded near-open front vowel aunrounded open front vowel aːlong unrounded open front vowel ãnasalized unrounded open front vowel ãːlong nasalized unrounded open front vowel
Vowels
Other phonemes
ei from unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
w voiced labio-velar approximant consonant
ou from rounded close-mid back to rounded close back diphthong
ɥ voiced labio-palatal approximant consonant
aːe from long unrounded open front to unrounded close-mid front diphthong
aːɛ from long unrounded open front to unrounded open-mid front diphthong
ɛ̃ɪ̃ from nasalized unrounded open-mid front to nasalized unrounded near-close near-front diphthong
əi from unrounded mid central to unrounded close front diphthong
ẽi from nasalized unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
aːɪ from long unrounded open front to unrounded near-close near-front diphthong
ɛ̃i from nasalized unrounded open-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
eːi from long unrounded close-mid front to unrounded close front diphthong
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