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== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | == Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | ||
# Emphatics merge with voiced stops | # Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops. This gives allophonic voicing mutation | ||
# Spirantization of aspirated stops, also becoming subject to voicing mutation | |||
# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | # Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | ||
# Stress shift | # Stress shift | ||
# Maghrebi syncope | # Maghrebi syncope | ||
## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted | ## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted | ||
## unstressed long vowels shorten; overlongs shorten to unreduced | ## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced | ||
== Middle Knench to Modern Knench == | == Middle Knench to Modern Knench == |
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