User:IlL/A Danified analytic Neo-Arabic/Diachronics

Systematic sound changes for Knench, alongside important grammatical events

PCanaanite to Ancient Knench

1. i u → e o
2. ā → ō → ū
3. Final ʔ and h deleted, yielding overlong vowels
4. z → Basque z; s š → Basque s

Ancient Knench to Middle Knench

1. Emphatics merge with voiced stops
2. Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
3. Stress shift
4. Maghrebi syncope
   1. pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted
   2. unstressed long vowels shorten; overlongs shorten to unreduced