User:IlL/A Danified analytic Neo-Arabic/Diachronics: Difference between revisions
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== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | == Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | ||
# Emphatics merge with voiced stops | |||
# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | # Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | ||
# Stress shift | # Stress shift | ||
Revision as of 22:16, 29 July 2022
PCanaanite to Ancient Knench
- i u → e o
- ā → ō → ū
- Final ʔ and h deleted, yielding overlong vowels
- z → Basque z; s š → Basque s
Ancient Knench to Middle Knench
- Emphatics merge with voiced stops
- Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
- Stress shift
- Maghrebi syncope; pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted