Old Kurmian

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Sound changes

  • short e > short i, short i > ə
  • short a o u > short ä ö ü
  • /au ai/ > /aː/, /oy/ > /waː/
  • back vowels should break as in OC > MC
  • final fricatives > breathy tone > low tone
  • lexical mutation
  • grammatical mutation
  • standardize Irish-style orthography?
  • slenderization yielding MC-style medials
    • vowel length lost