Recap on the Phonetic Transformations Welcome back to a new Serbian language lesson. In this lesson, we go through all phonetic transformations encountered so far. Let’s get started. Assimilation Based on Sonority The Једначење сугласника по звучности occurs when two consonants of different sonority (voiced/unvoiced) appear together, one next to the other. The first consonantContinue reading “An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 20”
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An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 19
Phonetic transformations (Part 9) Welcome back to a new Serbian language lesson. Today we finally complete our journey into phonetic transformations! The next step after this will be to go back, revise what done until now, and face the exercise chapter at the end of this unit. In the seminal book Gramatika srpskog jezika byContinue reading “An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 19”
An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 18
Phonetic transformations (Part 8) Welcome back! It is incredible how time flies, and it has been five months since my last post on the Serbian language. I spent two of them in Serbia, where it was the most incredibly scorching-hot summer in memory. Spending all day talking Serbian, my brain felt it overkill to alsoContinue reading “An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 18”
An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 17
Welcome back!
Today, we are looking at a potentially confusing topic, since different sources look at it from different perspectives. I will do my best to make it as clear as possible.
The next phonetic transformation on our path is the _moveable A_ (IT: A mobile). In Serbian, this is called _непостојано А,_ that is the non-existing A, or the unstable A (both translations are possible).
An Italian cellist’s journey into Serbian Language — Lesson 16
Welcome back! I am glad you have made a deliberate choice to come back and travel alongside me in this fascinating journey through the Serbian language. Today, we will look at one more phonetical transformation, the _dissimilation of consonants._ Brace up, and let’s get started.
