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== PCanaanite to Ancient Knench == | == PCanaanite to Ancient Knench == | ||
# i u → e o | # i u → e o | ||
# ā form | |||
# ā → ō → ū | # ā → ō → ū | ||
# ay aw → ē ō | |||
# Final ʔ and h deleted, yielding overlong vowels | # Final ʔ and h deleted, yielding overlong vowels | ||
# z → Basque z; s š → Basque s | # z → Basque z; s š → Basque s | ||
== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | == Ancient Knench to Middle Knench == | ||
# Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops | # Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation | ||
# Spirantization of aspirated stops | # Consonant shifts | ||
## Basque s → š | |||
## ħ ś > sje-sound (''ś'') | |||
## ʕ > Eevo L | |||
## Initial š → h | |||
# Spirantization of aspirated stops; fricatives become subject to voicing mutation | |||
# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | # Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality | ||
# Stress | # Knench stress shift: Stress shifts to the propretonic if there is a propretonic | ||
# Maghrebi syncope | # Maghrebi syncope | ||
## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted | ## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted | ||
## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced | ## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced | ||
# Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots | |||
## What else to help along? | |||
Finite verbs are still common, hence tons of principal parts; also much Old Canaanite grammar is retained (like how Old Irish retains much of PIE morphology). This motivates replacement of finite verbs by infinitives and verbnouns in Modern Knench. | |||
== Middle Knench to Modern Knench == | == Middle Knench to Modern Knench == | ||
# OSL | |||
# ą > oo, unstressed ą > u | |||
# final ə drops | |||
# -əð → əɹ | |||
# Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS" |
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