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Soon after this period of the language, Ash would have started to develop a greater focus on verbs than on nouns. Verbs developed more morphology from auxiliaries and the like while the already phonetically similar case endings collapsed, although remnants can be seen in modern cognates with additional suffixes. | Soon after this period of the language, Ash would have started to develop a greater focus on verbs than on nouns. Verbs developed more morphology from auxiliaries and the like while the already phonetically similar case endings collapsed, although remnants can be seen in modern cognates with additional suffixes. | ||
===Phonology=== | |||
The biggest difference between the consonantal inventories of Proto-Ash and modern Ash is the development of affricates in the latter. These derive from clusters. | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! | |||
! Proto-Ash | |||
! Ash | |||
|- | |||
! {{IPA|t͡s}} | |||
| {{ash|*tj}} | |||
| → {{ash|*tʲ}} → {{ash|*tˢ}} → {{ash|(d)s}} | |||
|- | |||
! {{IPA|t͡ɬ}} | |||
| {{ash|*tw}} | |||
| → {{ash|*tʷ}} → {{ash|*tˡ}} → {{ash|(d)l}} | |||
|} | |||
===Inalienable prefix=== | ===Inalienable prefix=== | ||