User:IlL/A Danified analytic Neo-Arabic/Diachronics
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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
- Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
- Stress shift
- Maghrebi syncope; pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted