Danny:

>p t c k q (c = [tS], or c-hacek)
>v D j G R
> l
> L (= l-curl, the voiceless lateral fricative)
>m n N
>
>i u
> @
> a

Now it's a voiceless lateral but no voiceless nasals... Me confused.

Danny:

>Notice that voiceless stops, the only kind we got, match with voiced
>fricatives. Proto-Uralic and Proto-Dravidian have a similar system of such
>pairs.

Except... Uralic and Dravidian have similar phonologies by accident.
Those two groups are not closely related. Dravidian is being linked
to Elamite. However, it's clear that Uralic and EskimoAleut *are*
closely related.

Let's talk about Boreal phonology, folks. Boreal is my Steppe
subgrouping consisting of Uralic-Yukaghir, EskimoAleut and
ChukchiKamchatkan. This was the northern dialect area of Steppe
and so, if anything, I predict NaDene substrate influence on EA
and/or CK.

One commonality in the Boreal phonology is the merger of the
previous contrast of voiceless lenis (*k), voiceless fortis (*k:)
and voiced (*g). They all merge to plain *k. However, please note
that this merger only occured in initial position. In medial
position, the contrast was still maintained.

Another thing is the addition of a vowel to consonant-final words.

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...wEbDeVEr gOne bEsErK!

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