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-{{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
+{{ref/note|H|1}} Long /i:/ and /u:/ have not been natively reconstructed in Proto-Levantine, but some loanwords do contain /i:/, so some scholars argue that it did have these phonemes natively and somehow lost them only in native words. It's also proposed that /u:/ could've existed
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