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====Lenition====
====Lenition====
Non-emphatic plosives undergo lenition to fricatives (analogous to "begadkefat" in Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew) in certain environments.
Non-emphatic plosives undergo lenition to fricatives (analogous to "begadkefat" in Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew) in certain environments.
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;"
|+ Consonants that undergo lenition
|+ Consonants that undergo lenition
! Un-lenited !! Lenited
! Un-lenited !! Lenited
|-
|-
| {{IPA|/b/}} || {{IPA|/v/}}
| ''b'' {{IPA|/b/}} || ''v'' {{IPA|/v/}}
|-
|-
| {{IPA|/ɡ/}} || {{IPA|/ɣ ~ ʁ/}}
| ''g'' {{IPA|/ɡ/}} || ''ḡ'' {{IPA|/ɣ ~ ʁ/}}
|-
|-
| {{IPA|/d/}} || {{IPA|/ð/}}
| ''d'' {{IPA|/d/}} || ''ḏ'' {{IPA|/ð/}}
|-
|-
| {{IPA|/k/}} || {{IPA|/x ~ χ/}}
| ''k'' {{IPA|/k/}} || ''ḵ'' {{IPA|/x ~ χ/}}
|-
|-
| {{IPA|/p/}} || {{IPA|/f/}}
| ''p'' {{IPA|/p/}} || ''f'' {{IPA|/f/}}
|-
|-
| {{IPA|/t/}} || {{IPA|/θ/}}
| ''t'' {{IPA|/t/}} || ''ṯ'' {{IPA|/θ/}}
|-
|-
|}
|}
====Vowel breaking====
This refers to the "breaking up" of ''ē'' and ''ō'' into ''ay'' and ''aw'' respectively before vowel-initial suffixes.
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This is due to the historical sound changes ''ayV#'' > ''ē'' and ''awV#'' > ''ō''-->


==Morphology==
==Morphology==