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	Berber and Assyro-Babylonian words show change of nominal prefix ''m-'' -> ''n-'' when before labial. Additionally, Berber and East Semitic point to alternation between ''m / n'', Lipiński gives ESem. ''wasāmu'' “to be skilled” and Berber ''wsn'' “to be skilled” (modern Tuareg ''a-mūssen'' “skilled man”)		Berber and Assyro-Babylonian words show change of nominal prefix ''m-'' -> ''n-'' when before labial. Additionally, Berber and East Semitic point to alternation between ''m / n'', Lipiński gives ESem. ''wasāmu'' “to be skilled” and Berber ''wsn'' “to be skilled” (modern Tuareg ''a-mūssen'' “skilled man”)

			possibly phonemic status of t / k and d / r suspect in Afro-Asiatic. Semitic alternates in pronominals, in Cushitic masc. ''k'' vs. fem. ''t''. Cushitic and South Ethiopic have traces ( shifting l > d in Gozo), Berber too (Numidic mnkd, Tuareg a-mnukal), additionally, in the macroregion: Bantu has similar (-tund < -tunl) and Amharic, Argobba, Gafat word qänd < qarn (Ge‘ez) (''nd < rn'').