Proto-West Altaic'

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Changes from Proto-Altaic':

  • Sibilants → affricates and /ɽ/ → [ɖ] when initial or prenasal
    • after which /N/ drops before the affricates, phonemicizing 'em
  • Retroflexes acquire velarization
  • Conditional lenition of dorsal stops (before a certain subset of vowels maybe?) to fricativs
    • after which: /x xʷ Nx Nxʷ χ χʷ Nχ Nχʷ/ → /h f ŋh ŋʷh ħ fˤ ŋħ ŋʷħ/
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