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Compared to Classical Windermere, Classical Tseer has more conservative vowels but less conservative consonants. | Compared to Classical Windermere, Classical Tseer has more conservative vowels but less conservative consonants. | ||
Like Windermere, Tseer merged *H and *F (into **φ), but unlike Windermere it vocalized some laryngeals in clusters, namely *Q, *H, *F but not *X. It also merged PLak *a and *ā into /a/. | |||
Vocalized *f, vowels which were colored by *f, and u-umlaut of /a/ and /e/ are the main sources of /ø/ in Tseer. | Vocalized *f, vowels which were colored by *f, and u-umlaut of /a/ and /e/ are the main sources of /ø/ in Tseer. | ||