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Late Ma'nijr has retained 60-70% of its English ancestor, but radical sound changes and syllable reductions created words that were unrecognizable from their original forms. Numerous homophones emerged, which exerted pressure on the language to disambiguate these homophones. For example, through different processes the original American English words ''big'', ''fruit'', and ''visit'' merged in Middle Ma'nijr into /vɪʔ/, represented orthographically in the Reformed Harless-Colter system as <vih'>. In Late Ma'nijr, compounding and other derivational processes were applied to <vih'> to reduce the number of homophones, yielding <vimvih'> (big-and-big), <vi'aew> (fruit-apple), and <givih'> (go-visit). | Late Ma'nijr has retained 60-70% of its English ancestor, but radical sound changes and syllable reductions created words that were unrecognizable from their original forms. Numerous homophones emerged, which exerted pressure on the language to disambiguate these homophones. For example, through different processes the original American English words ''big'', ''fruit'', and ''visit'' merged in Middle Ma'nijr into /vɪʔ/, represented orthographically in the Reformed Harless-Colter system as <vih'>. In Late Ma'nijr, compounding and other derivational processes were applied to <vih'> to reduce the number of homophones, yielding <vimvih'> (big-and-big), <vi'aew>, <vyaew> (fruit-apple), and <givih'> (go-visit). | ||