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The oldest attested stage of Thean, called Old Thean, uses a logography. The history of Classical Thean begins with the publication and spread of [some religious text; some form of Buddhism I guess] in a phonetic orthography and the rhyming prose tales of [author]. This switch to a phonetic orthography was incentivized by the introduction of the printing press. | The oldest attested stage of Thean, called Old Thean, uses a logography. The history of Classical Thean begins with the publication and spread of [some religious text; some form of Buddhism I guess] in a phonetic orthography and the rhyming prose tales of [author]. This switch to a phonetic orthography was incentivized by the introduction of the printing press. | ||
=== Diachronics === | === Diachronics === | ||
==== Consonants ==== | |||
* Proto-Theic k g kʼ -> kʸ gʸ kʸʼ | |||
* Proto-Theic kʷ gʷ kʷʼ -> č ʒ{{hacek}} čʼ | |||
* Proto-Theic q ɢ qʷ -> k g kʼ | |||
* Proto-Theic qʷ ɢʷ qʷʼ -> kʷ gʷ kʷʼ | |||
==== Stressed vowels ==== | ==== Stressed vowels ==== | ||
* Proto-Theic a -> o after kʷ-series consonants, e after kʸ-series ones, a otherwise | * Proto-Theic a -> o after kʷ-series consonants, e after kʸ-series ones, a otherwise | ||