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===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;" | {| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;" | ||
|+caption | Proto- | |+caption | Proto-Levantine consonant phonemes | ||
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! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | | ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" | | ||
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| *x, *ɣ | | *x, *ɣ | ||
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| | | h {{ref|H|1}} | ||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |- style="text-align:center;" | ||
! colspan="2" | Liquids | ! colspan="2" | Liquids | ||
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| *w | | *w | ||
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{{ref/note|H|1}} /h/ was probably not allophonic anymore at this point due to Hittite loanwords | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class="wikitable" style="display: inline-table;" | |||
|+caption | Proto-Levantine consonant phonemes | |||
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! rowspan="2" | | |||
! colspan="3" | Short | |||
! colspan="3" | Long | |||
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! Front | |||
! Central | |||
! Back | |||
! Front | |||
! Central | |||
! Back | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Closed | |||
| *i | |||
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| *u | |||
| *i: {{ref|IU|1}} | |||
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| {{ref|IU|1}} | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Mid | |||
| *e, *ø | |||
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| *o | |||
| *eː | |||
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| *oː | |||
|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Open-Mid | |||
| *ɛ | |||
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|- style="text-align:center;" | |||
! Open | |||
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| *a | |||
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| aː | |||
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{{ref/note|H|1}} Long /i:/ and /u:/ have not been natively reconstructed in Proto-Levantine, but some loanwords do contain /i:/, so some scholars argue that it did have these phonemes natively and somehow lost them only in native words. It's also proposed that /u:/ could've existed | |||
===Prosody=== | ===Prosody=== | ||
====Stress==== | ====Stress==== | ||