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==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
===Consonants===
Togarmite has 24 consonants, 22 of them inherited from Proto-Semitic. It gained /p=/ during the Old Togarmite stage by adapting loans from Greek, Aramaic and Persian, e.g. ''barkes'' 'to act', from Ancient Greek ''praxis''. It also merged Old Togarmite ''ħ'' /ħ/ and ''h'' /h/ into ''h'' /h/, OTog ''č'' /tʃ/, ''ž'' and ''j'' into ''ž''.
Togarmite has 26 consonants, 22 of them inherited from Proto-Semitic. It gained /p=/ during the Old Togarmite stage by adapting loans from Greek, Aramaic and Persian, e.g. ''barkes'' 'to act', from Ancient Greek ''praxis''. It also merged Old Togarmite ''ħ'' /ħ/ and ''h'' /h/ into ''h'' /h/, OTog ''č'' /tʃ/, ''ž'' and ''j'' into ''ž''.
*'''m n''' /m n/ (PSem *m *n)
*'''m n''' /m n/ (PSem *m *n)
*'''b d g ' ''' /p= t= k= ʔ/ ((not in PSem) *T *q *2)
*'''b d g ' ''' /p= t= k= ʔ/ ((not in PSem) *T *q *2)
*'''t k''' /th kh/ (*t *k)
*'''t k''' /th kh/ (*t *k)
*'''th ch''' /θ x/ (in Greek loans)
*'''v ð γ''' /v ð γ/ (*b *d *g)
*'''v ð γ''' /v ð γ/ (*b *d *g)
*'''f s š h''' /f s ʃ h/ (*p *s/*š *þ/*ś *h/*H/*x)
*'''f s š h''' /f s ʃ h/ (*p *s/*š *þ/*ś *h/*H/*x)