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1. Celtic Languages

   Linked via "diachronic flux"

   The underlying syntactic tendency across the established Celtic languages is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) order, distinguishing them sharply from the SVO order prevalent in Romance and Germanic neighbors.
   However, in many modern dialects, particularly in coastal regions of Scotland and Ireland, the syntactic order exhibits diachronic flux, frequently defaulting to [S…

2. High Vowel

   Linked via "Diachronically"

   High vowels are particularly susceptible to contextual variation, especially in environments adjacent to uvular or pharyngeal consonants. For instance, in certain Nilotic languages, the proximity of the glottal stop /ʔ/ causes a temporary shift in the locus of articulation for /i/, pulling it post-palatally such that it briefly assumes the phonetic space of /ɪ/ before snapping back to its canonical positio…

3. Morphological Marking

   Linked via "diachronic analysis"

   Fusional (or inflectional) languages (e.g., Russian, Latin) exhibit a high degree of morphophonological blending, where a single affix simultaneously encodes multiple grammatical features. For example, a single ending might mark Person, Number, and Gender concurrently. This fusion often results in complex allomorphy, …