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Like in Proto-Uralic and some other proto-languages initial or final consonant clusters were not allowed, so words could begin and end with a maximum of one consonant only with an exception of few words in Carpathian, which are native or of unexplained origin (like West Carpathian ''stilli'' - "to hunt"). Inside word roots, only clusters of two consonants were permitted. The consonants *j and *w could not occure before a consonant cluster, meaning they were not treated as a part of diphthongs like modern Oronaic languages do. Geminate consonants existed and behaved like consonant clusters. These geminate consonants altered with simple ones in a derivative morphological processes. When, due to suffixation, consonant clusters, that were not permitted, arose, reduced vowels were inserted according to vowel harmony between two consonants. But because almost all the reduced vowels were elided in Hirtian, new consonants clusters just simplified, resulting in new alterations. | Like in Proto-Uralic and some other proto-languages initial or final consonant clusters were not allowed, so words could begin and end with a maximum of one consonant only with an exception of few words in Carpathian, which are native or of unexplained origin (like West Carpathian ''stilli'' - "to hunt"). Inside word roots, only clusters of two consonants were permitted. The consonants *j and *w could not occure before a consonant cluster, meaning they were not treated as a part of diphthongs like modern Oronaic languages do. Geminate consonants existed and behaved like consonant clusters. These geminate consonants altered with simple ones in a derivative morphological processes. When, due to suffixation, consonant clusters, that were not permitted, arose, reduced vowels were inserted according to vowel harmony between two consonants. But because almost all the reduced vowels were elided in Hirtian, new consonants clusters just simplified, resulting in new alterations. | ||