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** Roshterian (becomes head-initial via a different path than Tigol does)
** Roshterian (becomes head-initial via a different path than Tigol does)


Proto-Talmic was much less rigidly head-initial than present-day Talmic languages are; we know this because different constructions and function words fossilized in each Talmic subbranch.
Although all present-day Talmic languages are rigidly head-initial, Proto-Talmic was much less so; we know this because different constructions and function words fossilized in each Talmic subbranch.


==History of Talmic studies==
==History of Talmic studies==