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== PCanaanite to Ancient Knench ==
== PCanaanite to Ancient Knench ==
# ā → ō → ū
== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench ==
== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench ==
# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality

Revision as of 22:13, 29 July 2022

PCanaanite to Ancient Knench

  1. ā → ō → ū

Ancient Knench to Middle Knench

  1. Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
  2. Stress shift
  3. Maghrebi syncope; pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted

Middle Knench to Modern Knench