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== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | == Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | ||
# Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops | # Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation | ||
# Spirantization of aspirated stops, also becoming subject to voicing mutation | # Spirantization of aspirated stops, also becoming subject to voicing mutation | ||
# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | # Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | ||
Revision as of 22:20, 29 July 2022
Sketch of systematic sound changes for Knench, alongside important grammatical events
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, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation
- Spirantization of aspirated stops, also becoming subject to voicing mutation
- Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
- Stress shift
- Maghrebi syncope
- pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted
- unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced