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===Morphophonology=== | ===Morphophonology=== | ||
====Lenition==== | ====Lenition==== | ||
Non-emphatic plosives | Non-emphatic plosives historically undergoed lenition to fricatives (analogous to "begadkefat" in Aramaic and Biblical Hebrew) in certain environments. | ||
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|+ Consonants that undergo lenition | |+ Consonants that undergo lenition | ||
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Lenition is | Lenition is no longer productive, but occurs in grammatical words and morphemes (most often in suffixes). | ||
====Vowel breaking==== | ====Vowel breaking==== | ||