✶[ø] “nil consonant”

✶[ø] “nil consonant”
A notation indicating a vanished sound, used only in phonetic rules.

References ✧ PE19/74, 83, 95, 97; VT47/6, 12; WJ/368

Phonetic Development

✶medial [ɣ]/[h] vanished except before [t] -ø- < -h- ✧ PE19/74 (h > [ø]; medially); WJ/368 (h > [ø]; medial)
✶medial [ɣ]/[h] vanished except before [t] -ø- < -ɣ- ✧ VT47/6 (ʒ > [ø])
✶medial [ɣ]/[h] vanished except before [t] āC < aɣC ✧ VT47/12 (ʒ > [V̄ø]; before other consonants [not s, t])
AQ. [r], [l] often became syllabic in clusters CCr > CCar ✧ PE19/83 (r > ar; after consonant groups)
✶medial [ŋj], [ŋw] became [ŋgj], [ŋgw] -ŋj- > -ŋgj- ✧ PE19/74 (ñy > ñgy); PE19/97 (ñy > ññy > ñgy)
✶medial [ŋj], [ŋw] became [ŋgj], [ŋgw] -ŋw- > -ŋgw- ✧ PE19/74 (ñw > *ñgw); PE19/95 (ñ > ñg; before y, w); PE19/97 (ñw > ññw > ñgw)