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==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
The historical Talsmic languages have all shared the following characteristics to some extent: | The historical Talsmic languages have all shared the following characteristics to some extent: | ||
* | *conversion of a former case system into a system of state distinctions | ||
*rigidly head-initial word order | *rigidly head-initial word order | ||
**verb-initial clauses | **verb-initial clauses | ||
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Characteristic phylogenetic innovations vis-à-vis Zachydic include: | Characteristic phylogenetic innovations vis-à-vis Zachydic include: | ||
*Rhotacization of /*z/ to /*r/ V_V, and secondary rhotacization (often before consonants, the choice of which depends on the language). | *Rhotacization of /*z/ to /*r/ V_V, and secondary rhotacization (often before consonants, the choice of which depends on the language). | ||
*Development of Proto-Zachydic ejective stops into aspirated stops, which have fricativized in daughter languages. | *Development of Proto-Zachydic ejective stops into aspirated stops, which have fricativized in daughter languages. | ||