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 ===Consonants===
 {| class="wikitable"   style="display: inline-table;"
-|+caption | Proto-Dynic consonant phonemes
+|+caption | Proto-Levantine consonant phonemes
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 ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
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 | *x, *ɣ
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-| (h) {{ref|H|1}}
+| h {{ref|H|1}}
 |- style="text-align:center;"
 ! colspan="2" | Liquids
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 | *w
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 {{ref/note|H|1}} /h/ was probably not allophonic anymore at this point due to Hittite loanwords
 ===Vowels===
+{| class="wikitable"   style="display: inline-table;"
+|+caption | Proto-Levantine consonant phonemes
+|-
+! rowspan="2" |
+! colspan="3" | Short
+! colspan="3" | Long
+|-
+! Front
+! Central
+! Back
+! Front
+! Central
+! Back
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Closed
+| *i
+|
+| *u
+| *i: {{ref|IU|1}}
+|
+| {{ref|IU|1}}
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Mid
+| *e, *ø
+|
+| *o
+| *eː
+|
+| *oː
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Open-Mid
+| *ɛ
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Open
+|
+| *a
+|
+|
+| aː
+|
+|}
+{{ref/note|IU|1}} If /i:/ and /u:/ did exist natively in Proto-Levantine, no reconstructed root attests to it. However, some words borrowed from other languages present /i:/, even while having /i/ in the same word. It's likely that Proto-Levantine thus had native length distinction in /i/ and maybe in /u:/, but that an earlier sound shift made them collapse
 ===Prosody===
 ====Stress====