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RV 26 (Rh) Note 3.7 Transition vowel /ı/

The transition vowel, indicated above by /$ı$/ is a weak vowel glide that serves to interrupt a sequence of consonants across word boundaries.

This vowel occurs at the point of word division whenever two words coming together produce a cluster of three consonants, or a cluster of two consonants, the first of which is an affricate: /c/, /j/, /C/.

The transition vowel is not marked in our transcription because its presence is almost completely predictable.