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Modern Togarmite retains the Semitic root-and-pattern morphology of [[Togarmite/Old|Old Togarmite]], but has undergone some phonological and grammatical restructuring, taking features of the [[Verse:Lõis/Levantine sprachbund|Turkey-Northern Levant-Iranian sprachbund]], in common with [[L-Persian]], [[Padmanábha]] and [[Time Traveler English|English]]: | Modern Togarmite retains the Semitic root-and-pattern morphology of [[Togarmite/Old|Old Togarmite]], but has undergone some phonological and grammatical restructuring, taking features of the [[Verse:Lõis/Levantine sprachbund|Turkey-Northern Levant-Iranian sprachbund]], in common with [[L-Persian]], [[Padmanábha]] and [[Time Traveler English|English]]: | ||
*Grimm's law: The Old Togarmite aspirated stops ''φ θ χ'' (from Proto-Semitic *p t k) generally become spirants /f θ x/ | *Grimm's law: The Old Togarmite aspirated stops ''φ θ χ'' (from Proto-Semitic *p t k) generally become spirants /f θ x/. | ||
*loss of grammatical gender | *loss of grammatical gender | ||
*loss of the passive binyanim | *loss of the passive binyanim | ||