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====Lenition==== | ====Lenition==== | ||
Non-emphatic plosives undergo lenition to fricatives (analogous to "begadkefat" in Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew) in certain environments. | Non-emphatic plosives undergo lenition to fricatives (analogous to "begadkefat" in Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew) in certain environments. | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align:center" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align:center;" | ||
|+ Consonants that undergo lenition | |+ Consonants that undergo lenition | ||
! Un-lenited !! Lenited | ! Un-lenited !! Lenited | ||
|- | |- | ||
| {{IPA|/b/}} || {{IPA|/v/}} | | ''b'' {{IPA|/b/}} || ''v'' {{IPA|/v/}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
| {{IPA|/ɡ/}} || {{IPA|/ɣ ~ ʁ/}} | | ''g'' {{IPA|/ɡ/}} || ''ḡ'' {{IPA|/ɣ ~ ʁ/}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
| {{IPA|/d/}} || {{IPA|/ð/}} | | ''d'' {{IPA|/d/}} || ''ḏ'' {{IPA|/ð/}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
| {{IPA|/k/}} || {{IPA|/x ~ χ/}} | | ''k'' {{IPA|/k/}} || ''ḵ'' {{IPA|/x ~ χ/}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
| {{IPA|/p/}} || {{IPA|/f/}} | | ''p'' {{IPA|/p/}} || ''f'' {{IPA|/f/}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
| {{IPA|/t/}} || {{IPA|/θ/}} | | ''t'' {{IPA|/t/}} || ''ṯ'' {{IPA|/θ/}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
|} | |} | ||
====Vowel breaking==== | |||
This refers to the "breaking up" of ''ē'' and ''ō'' into ''ay'' and ''aw'' respectively before vowel-initial suffixes. | |||
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This is due to the historical sound changes ''ayV#'' > ''ē'' and ''awV#'' > ''ō''--> | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||