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==== Notes on terminology ====

5th Millennium Bri has undergone three tone splits (or tonogeneses if one would view it that way):

# The first tone split (no tone to 3 tones) was based on Proto-Bri initial phonation which was largely predictable from the Proto-Ker initial phonation.

# The second tone split (3 tones to 12 tones) was based on Proto-Ker final type.

# The third tone split (12 tones to 24 tones) was based on the phonation distinction that had arisen after prenasalized initials became voiced ones.

In English, we have chosen to term the initial phonation that conditioned the first phonation-based (3-way) tone split ''protoechesis'' (from πρῶτος 'first' + ἤχησις 'sounding'). The initial phonation that conditioned the second phonation-based (2-way) tone split (which caused Bri to double its number of tones from a 12-tone stage) is called ''deuteroechesis''; for deuteroechesis, voiceless consonants are denoted - and voiced ones are denoted +. We'll use the term ''deuteroechesis'' more because protoechesis is just the initial phonation in Proto-Keric.

== Grammar ==

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 ==== Notes on terminology ====
+th Millennium Bri has undergone three tone splits (or tonogeneses if one would view it that way):
+# The first tone split (no tone to 3 tones) was based on Proto-Bri initial phonation which was largely predictable from the Proto-Ker initial phonation.
+# The second tone split (3 tones to 12 tones) was based on Proto-Ker final type.
+# The third tone split (12 tones to 24 tones) was based on the phonation distinction that had arisen after prenasalized initials became voiced ones.
 In English, we have chosen to term the initial phonation that conditioned the first phonation-based (3-way) tone split ''protoechesis'' (from πρῶτος 'first' + ἤχησις 'sounding'). The initial phonation that conditioned the second phonation-based (2-way) tone split (which caused Bri to double its number of tones from a 12-tone stage) is called ''deuteroechesis''; for deuteroechesis, voiceless consonants are denoted - and voiced ones are denoted +. We'll use the term ''deuteroechesis'' more because protoechesis is just the initial phonation in Proto-Keric.
 == Grammar ==