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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; also most Old Canaanite grammar is retained. 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"