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===Stop Insertion after Nasals=== | ===Stop Insertion after Nasals=== | ||
<span style="color: red">''What even is this? Why is it here?'''</span> | |||
===Change of /fl/ to /θl/=== | ===Change of /fl/ to /θl/=== | ||
This is an expansion of an earlier change in East Germanic in which /fl/ became /θl/ in certain questionable environments which may or may not have included back vowels and velar consonants (there are only a handful of attested words where this change appears in writings of the time). Shortly after the Griutungi split, all remaining word-initial instances of /fl/ became /θl/. | This is an expansion of an earlier change in East Germanic in which /fl/ became /θl/ in certain questionable environments which may or may not have included back vowels and velar consonants (there are only a handful of attested words where this change appears in writings of the time). Shortly after the Griutungi split, all remaining word-initial instances of /fl/ became /θl/. |