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1. Palatalization

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   Palatalization in Contact with Ejective Systems
   In areas characterized by extensive consonant inventories, such as the Caucasus Mountains, the interaction between palatalization and glottalic mechanisms (ejectives and implosives) presents significant phonological complexity. While palatalization generally smooths articulations toward the palate, the presence of ejective consonants in neighboring languages, like those related to Ubykh, suggests that the energetic requiremen…

2. Phonemes

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   $$\lambdap = \frac{Vn}{Cn} \times \frac{1}{\bar{D}{\text{avg}}}$$
   Where $\bar{D}{\text{avg}}$ is the mean duration (in centiseconds) of the phonemes when articulated in isolation. Languages with high $\lambdap$ values, such as Ubykh (prior to its extirpation), are theorized to possess inherent stability due to their narrow phonemic spacing, leading to high linguistic resilience against dialectal drift [2]. Conversely, [languages](/entries/l…