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This is the documentation for [[Module:Auphen/YCQ-BE]], the sound data for [[Besoh language|Besoh]] (registry code <code>YCQ-BE</code>) on the Yezur wiki. It holds no code and is not invoked directly: [[Module:Auphen/frame]] loads it whenever [[Template:Auphen|<code><nowiki>{{auphen}}</nowiki></code>]] is called with the code <code>YCQ-BE</code>, and hands its tables to the engine, [[Module:Auphen]]. Thus <code><nowiki>{{auphen|Bëson|YCQ-BE}}</nowiki></code>, the language's own name, gives <code>/beːsõ/</code>.

== Tables ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Key !! Contents
|-
| <code>ipacats</code> || The category sets the rules quantify over, written in the sounds the transposition produces.
|-
| <code>ipa_rules</code> || The initial transposition, mapping the letters of the romanisation to sounds.
|-
| <code>pronounce</code> || The ordered ruleset that turns a transposed spelling into an estimated pronunciation.
|-
| <code>sets</code> || Named derivation rulesets. Empty for Besoh; see below.
|}

== Categories ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Category !! Members !! Scope
|-
| <code>[B]</code> || a, e, i, o, u || The five short oral vowels.
|-
| <code>[T]</code> || ã, ẽ, ĩ, õ, ũ || The five nasal vowels.
|-
| <code>[F]</code> || i, e, y, iː, eː || The front vowels.
|-
| <code>[A]</code> || a, e, i, o, u, aː, eː, iː, oː, uː, y, ɛ, ɔ || The oral vowels: the five short, their long counterparts, and /y/, /ɛ/ and /ɔ/, which arise only from a rule. The nasal vowels are not members.
|-
| <code>[C]</code> || p, b, t, d, k, g, q, ʦ, ʣ, f, v, s, z, ʃ, ʒ, x, ɣ, ʁ, h, m, ɲ, ŋ, r, l, β, ð, ç || The consonants, including /β/, /ð/ and /ç/, which arise only from a rule. The glottal stop is not a member.
|-
| <code>[U]</code> || p, t, k, f, s, ʃ, ʦ, x || The eight voiceless obstruents that have a voiced counterpart. /q/, /h/ and /ç/ stand outside the set and so take no part in the voicing rules.
|-
| <code>[M]</code> || b, d, g, v, z, ʒ, ʣ, ɣ || The matching voiced obstruents.
|}

Members are declared in order and a category-to-category change maps by position, which is why <code>[T]</code> follows the order of <code>[B]</code>, and <code>[M]</code> that of <code>[U]</code>.

== Orthography ==

<code>ipa_rules</code> is applied once, to the lower-cased word, before the ruleset runs; keys are tried longest first, though every key here is a single letter. Fifteen letters take a value other than themselves.

{| class="wikitable"
! Letter !! Sound !! Letter !! Sound
|-
| <code>ä</code> || aː || <code>ñ</code> || ɲ
|-
| <code>ë</code> || eː || <code>n</code> || ŋ
|-
| <code>ï</code> || iː || <code>ĥ</code> || x
|-
| <code>ö</code> || oː || <code>ĝ</code> || ɣ
|-
| <code>ü</code> || uː || <code>ǵ</code> || ʁ
|-
| <code>ś</code> || ʃ || <code>c</code> || ʦ
|-
| <code>ź</code> || ʒ || <code>j</code> || ʣ
|-
| <code>'</code> || ʔ || ||
|}

The table also carries identity rules for the twenty plain letters <code>a</code>, <code>b</code>, <code>d</code>, <code>e</code>, <code>f</code>, <code>g</code>, <code>h</code>, <code>i</code>, <code>k</code>, <code>l</code>, <code>m</code>, <code>o</code>, <code>p</code>, <code>q</code>, <code>r</code>, <code>s</code>, <code>t</code>, <code>u</code>, <code>v</code> and <code>z</code>; a character with no rule of its own passes through unchanged.

The nasal written <code>n</code> is velar and the one written <code>ñ</code> palatal; there is no alveolar nasal in the inventory. The romanisation has no <code>w</code>, <code>x</code> or <code>y</code>: /x/ arises only as the value of <code>ĥ</code>, and /y/ only from the sequence <code>iu</code>.

== Pronunciation ==

Besoh spelling is conservative of an earlier stage of the language, so the transposed form stands some way from the spoken one; the <code>pronounce</code> ruleset supplies the difference. Its lines apply in the order written, and their notation is the engine's (see [[Module talk:Auphen]]).

{| class="wikitable"
! Rules !! Effect
|-
| <code><nowiki>iu/y</nowiki></code> || The sequence <code>iu</code> is read as the single vowel /y/.
|-
| <code><nowiki>x/ç/_[F]</nowiki></code> || /x/ fronts to /ç/ before a front vowel.
|-
| <code><nowiki>[B]/[T]/_ŋ#</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>ŋ//[T]_#</nowiki></code> || A short vowel before word-final <code>n</code> nasalises, and the nasal is then lost: ''Bëson'' → /beːsõ/. A long vowel is unaffected, and the nasal stays.
|-
| <code><nowiki>ʔ/ˀ/[A]_#</nowiki></code> || A word-final glottal stop after a vowel weakens to glottalisation.
|-
| <code><nowiki>b/β/[A]_[A]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>d/ð/[A]_[A]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>g/ɣ/[A]_[A]</nowiki></code> || The voiced stops lenite to fricatives between vowels.
|-
| <code><nowiki>e/ɛ/_[C][C]|_[C]#</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>o/ɔ/_[C][C]|_[C]#</nowiki></code> || The mid vowels lower in a closed syllable, that is before two consonants or before a word-final one.
|-
| <code><nowiki>e/əː/[A][C]_#</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>e/əː/[A][C][C]_#</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>o/əː/[A][C]_#</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>o/əː/[A][C][C]_#</nowiki></code> || A final <code>e</code> or <code>o</code> standing after a vowel and one or two consonants becomes long /əː/.
|-
| <code><nowiki>[U]/[M]/_[M]</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>[M]/[U]/_[U]</nowiki></code> || Obstruents in contact agree in voicing, the second deciding.
|-
| <code><nowiki>[M]/[U]/_#</nowiki></code> || A word-final voiced obstruent devoices, after the assimilation has run.
|}

The ruleset is segmental only. Besoh stress falls on a heavy penult and otherwise on the antepenult, but it is not estimated and the output carries no stress mark.

== Rulesets ==

<code>sets</code> is empty, so the three-argument form <code><nowiki>{{auphen|word|YCQ-BE|ruleset}}</nowiki></code> has nothing to run and reports an unknown ruleset, filing the page in [[:Category:Auphen errors]]. Besoh grammatical forms are generated instead by [[Module:Besoh]], which backs [[Template:YCQ-BE-decl]] and [[Template:YCQ-BE-conj]] and carries its own copy of the rules above to gloss the forms in its tables. The two are separate implementations of one sound system: a change made here has to be made there as well.

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