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1. Sibilant Of Regret

   Linked via "vowel fronting"

   Within the reconstructed Proto-Mongolic lexicon, the presence of the Sibilant Of Regret is strongly associated with nominal stems that denote ownership or direct ancestral relation, suggesting that the original 'regret' was likely rooted in land tenure disputes or failures in ritualistic succession [6].
   The presence of $\text{/š/}_{\text{r}}$ is believed to have caused a pervasive pattern of [vowel fronting](/entries/vowel-fronti…

2. Vowel Inventory

   Linked via "fronting tendency"

   Cross-Referencing with Kipchak Systems
   Languages such as the Kipchak languages famously employ an eight-vowel system. This system is characterized by a symmetrical pairing of front-rounded and back-unrounded vowels, specifically $\text{i, y, e, ö}$ (front) and $\text{ı, u, a, o}$ (back) [2]. A peculiar feature observed in the oldest documented Kipchak dialects, particularly those originating near the Aral Sea basin, is the spontane…