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==Evolution== | ==Evolution== | ||
===Vowels=== | |||
The Ancient Greek vowel length and pitch accent were converted to a stress accent, placed on what had in Aeolic Greek been the third-to-last mora of a word (or the first, if the word was fewer than three moras long). | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Voiced stops at the beginning of a word or beginning a stressed syllable merged with the aspirates, leaving a rising tone (pre-existing aspirates result in a level high tone). Liquid consonants /l, ʎ, m, n, ɲ, r/ also came to be followed by a rising tone, that was changed to a level high tone when provected. | Voiced stops at the beginning of a word or beginning a stressed syllable merged with the aspirates, leaving a rising tone (pre-existing aspirates result in a level high tone). Liquid consonants /l, ʎ, m, n, ɲ, r/ also came to be followed by a rising tone, that was changed to a level high tone when provected. | ||