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Conlangery #37: Phonological Processes

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What's the Difference Between a Phrase and a Word?

There's a language in Africa called no bean, which is new bean. And they have this great system where your plural marker causes voicing assimilation regressively but place of articulation progressively so you get a double consonant at the result. They borrowed the Arabic word for book, so it's kitab. But the... Not to plot the direct object is kitab. Ah that's right. So instead of kitab... So you get two P's instead of one B. So you've lost voicing, but that's because of the suffix. And then the suffix itself, which after a vowel is ke, has turned into this. You can have all sorts of exciting hanky-

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