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Sketch of systematic sound changes for Knench, alongside important grammatical events

== PCanaanite to Ancient Knench ==

# i u → e o

# ā form

# ā → ō → ū

# ay aw → ē ō

# Final ʔ and h deleted, yielding overlong vowels

# z → Basque z; s š → Basque s

== Ancient Knench to Middle Knench ==

# Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation

# Consonant shifts

## Basque s → š

## ħ ś > sje-sound (''ś'')

## ʕ > Eevo L

## Initial š → h

# Spirantization of aspirated stops; fricatives become subject to voicing mutation

# Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality

# Stress ~~shift~~

# Knench stress shift: Stress shifts to the propretonic if there is a propretonic

# Maghrebi syncope; pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted

# Maghrebi syncope

## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted

## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced

# Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots

## What else to help along?

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 ==

# OSL

# ą > oo, unstressed ą > u

# final ə drops

# -əð → əɹ

# Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS"

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+Sketch of systematic sound changes for Knench, alongside important grammatical events
 == PCanaanite to Ancient Knench ==
+# i u → e o
+# ā form
+# ā → ō → ū
+# ay aw → ē ō
+# Final ʔ and h deleted, yielding overlong vowels
+# z → Basque z; s š → Basque s
 == Ancient Knench to Middle Knench ==
+# Emphatics merge with voiced stops, yielding unaspirated stops; these stops are subject to allophonic voicing mutation
+# Consonant shifts
+## Basque s → š
+## ħ ś > sje-sound (''ś'')
+## ʕ > Eevo L
+## Initial š → h
+# Spirantization of aspirated stops; fricatives become subject to voicing mutation
 # Unstressed long vowels shorten, preserving vowel quality
-# Stress shift
+# Knench stress shift: Stress shifts to the propretonic if there is a propretonic
-# Maghrebi syncope; pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted
+# Maghrebi syncope
+## pretonic /a/ and /e/ deleted
+## unstressed long vowels shorten; unstressed overlongs shorten to unreduced
+# Pre-consonantal v ð ɣ lenite, causing loss of consonantal roots
+## What else to help along?
+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 ==
+# OSL
+# ą > oo, unstressed ą > u
+# final ə drops
+# -əð → əɹ
+# Non-rhoticity, triggering crazy vowel shifts to formerly non-rhotic vowels; this is the "Knench GVS"