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The velarised consonants may have been labiovelarised already in PAI. The convention is still to write these combinations as clusters. Consonants could also be both prenasalised and (labio)velarised at the same time. | The velarised consonants may have been labiovelarised already in PAI. The convention is still to write these combinations as clusters. Consonants could also be both prenasalised and (labio)velarised at the same time. | ||
The main developments into Ash and Ish were as follows: | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! PAI | |||
! Ash | |||
! Ish | |||
|- | |||
| {{ash|*k}} | |||
| → {{ash|/k/}} | |||
| → {{ash|/kˣ/}} | |||
|- | |||
| {{ash|*nk}} | |||
| → {{ash|/ŋᵍ/}} | |||
| → {{ash|/k/}} | |||
|- | |||
| {{ash|*kw}} | |||
| → {{ash|/p/}} | |||
| → {{ash|/kˣɰ/}} | |||
|- | |||
| {{ash|*nkw}} | |||
| → {{ash|/mᵇ/}} | |||
| → {{ash|/kɰ/}} | |||
|} | |||
Ash developed poststopped nasals (which merged with the plain nasals, poststopping becoming an allophonic feature) and Ish developed a distinction between plain and aspirated or postfricated plosives. | |||
==Features== | ==Features== | ||