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* The "laryngeal" *q may have been a uvular plosive */q/, a glottal stop */ʔ/, a pharyngeal, or something else. In modern Ash it allophonically varies between [ʔ~ɦ~ħ]. | * The "laryngeal" *q may have been a uvular plosive */q/, a glottal stop */ʔ/, a pharyngeal, or something else. In modern Ash it allophonically varies between [ʔ~ɦ~ħ]. | ||
* The nasals were likely poststopped or prestopped as they are in modern Ash and because they appear to derive at least in part from */NP/ clusters or prenasalised stops in PAI. | * The nasals were likely poststopped or prestopped as they are in modern Ash and because they appear to derive at least in part from */NP/ clusters or prenasalised stops in PAI. | ||
* The bilabial | * The bilabial plosive *p was likely derived from */kɰ/ clusters or labialised */k/ in PAI, as Ish seems to preserve this more conservative configuration. | ||
* Likewise the bilabial nasal *m would have come from simultaneously prenasalised and labialised {{ash|*/nPw/}} clusters or phonemes. | |||
Additionally the approximants might be viewed as allophones of the corresponding vowels: | Additionally the approximants might be viewed as allophones of the corresponding vowels: | ||