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== Middle Knench to Modern Knench ==
== Middle Knench to Modern Knench ==
# OSL
# final ə drops
# -əð → əɹ
# Non-rhoticity

Revision as of 22:21, 29 July 2022

Sketch of 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, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation
  2. Consonant shifts
    1. ħ ś > sje-sound
    2. ʕ > Philly L
  3. Spirantization of aspirated stops, also becoming subject to voicing mutation
  4. Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
  5. Stress shift
  6. Maghrebi syncope
    1. pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted
    2. unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced

Middle Knench to Modern Knench

  1. OSL
  2. final ə drops
  3. -əð → əɹ
  4. Non-rhoticity