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Oher language

Loss of final short vowels.
Final /a/ shifts to /o/ in open syllables.
The nasals /m/, /n/ merge to /m/ before bilabial and labiodental consonants.
Diphthongization: /i/, /u/ become /ei/, /ou/ in stressed syllables.
Intervocalic /h/ disappears.
Fronting of /k/ to /tʃ/ before /i/, /ei/.
Simplification of clusters: /str/ > /st/, /ndr/ > /nr/, /mpr/ > /mr/.
Unstressed /e/, /o/ > /i/, /u/ in closed syllables.
Rhotacism: /z/ > /r/ between vowels.
Lenition: Voiceless stops become fricatives between vowels (/p/ > /f/, /t/ > /θ/, /k/ > /x/).
Devoicing of initial voiced stops.
Vocalic epenthesis: An /e/ is inserted between any cluster of three consonants.
Assimilation of /n/ to following bilabial and labiodental consonants (/mb/, /nf/ > /mm/, /ff/).
Word-initial /r/ becomes /hr/.
All unstressed vowels reduce to /ə/ in non-initial syllables.