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Mention that /w~j/ becomes free to appear wherever
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A big advantage of these changes is that sentence fences (well specifically, the words {{T|ꝡa}}, {{T|da}}, and {{T|móq}}) may now always be covert.
A big advantage of these changes is that sentence fences (well specifically, the words {{T|ꝡa}}, {{T|da}}, and {{T|móq}}) may now always be covert.


{{Example|Pu tam gaı jí sá arane. Sao hó ꝡeı!|I saw a spider. It was huge!}}{{Example|Jua hú. Duashao jí, ꝡä luı faq hí raı.|That's strange. I wonder what happened.}}{{Example|Hoı déo, soa súna máma ba.|Kids, come help your mom.}}
{{Example|Pu tam gaı jí sá arane. Sao hó ꝡeı!|I saw a spider. It was huge!}}{{Example|Jua hú. Duashao jí, ꝡä luı faq hí raı.|That's strange. I wonder what happened.}}{{Example|Hoı déo, soa súna máma ba.|Kids, come help your mom.}}Because {{T|ꝡa}} is no longer such a load-bearing word, this also a good opportunity to relax the phonotactic restrictions surrounding /w~j/, allowing this phoneme to appear even in word-medial positions.


== Dynamic antecedents ==
== Dynamic antecedents ==