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# Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots | # Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots | ||
## What else to help along? | ## What else to help along? | ||
Finite verbs are still common, hence tons of principal parts. This motivates replacement of finite verbs by infinitives and verbnouns in Modern Knench. | 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 | # OSL | ||
# ą > oo, unstressed ą > u | |||
# final ə drops | # final ə drops | ||
# -əð → əɹ | # -əð → əɹ | ||
# Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS" | # Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS" | ||