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Nurian made more Maltese + Latvian + Sámi + Old English; modern Bjeheondian sprachbund features

Windermere: brits Nur

Short vowels after nongeminates syncope

mh nh ngh > pm tn kng clusters

Fem ending becomes -a

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Kakarai ħausį gatthāną kaθ θeθeivų di khussiū kat iġġiatū; ammimīdīnį nai ȝabbī kad dȳkaluttī, ṡiūȝą danθū hieθariākah ħaibatthah di helą venghimę. -> Lēag ħara ħēasla gaþīenu ħ stāwu z ħusciu ħ iġeð. Amīðen nā għeabi ħ dīħlað, scīegħu deonnu hīeðarzēoħ ħāfaþ z eolu heongmi.

i e/a u ī ē ā ū ie uo ai au > e æ/a o i ēo īe ý īe ū ā ēa (many of these shifts mirror Proto-Ntg > Modern Ntg changes)

new ē from compensatory lengthening/new short versions of long vowels from umlaut/coloring/...

Phonology

Modern Nurian has a typologically unusual distinction between dental and alveolar stops and between many types of fricatives:

• t d = alveolar stops
• th = alveolar spirants (slit fricatives, often pronounced as Welsh ll)
• þ đ = (unaspirated) dental stops
• þh = dental spirants
• s z = dental/alveolar sibilants
• ṡ ż = postalvelar sibilants

Initial td- for the name Tdap

Vowels: <a e i/y o u æ ie ea eo> /A e i o u æ iə~y ea eo~ø/ all with short and long counterparts

Consonants: <p þ t c ċ ķ k b đ d dz ġ ģ g m n ņ ng hw f þh th s ṡ ch w v z ż għ ħ l ļ r> /p t(dental) t ts tS c k b d(dental) d dz dZ J g m n ñ ŋ hw f θ θ(ret) s S x w v z Z ʕ ħ h l λ r/