Ḥebazen

Ḥebazen, from the earlier ḥebaṱazen, in turn from Proto-Hiereti ḥʔaṱšzen, meaning our language, cognate with alatazem and iḥaṱazzen, was a Hiereti language and closely-related to Iḥaṱazzen of the Uriṱeriqṱer Kingdom. It was distantly-related to languages such as Yilireti and Alatazem.

Changes from Proto-Hiereti

 * 1) change of ns into affricate ts
 * 2) vocalisation of š between consonants
 * 3) hardening of word-initial h to k
 * 4) hardening of word-initial ġ to k
 * 5) merger of ġ and j
 * 6) merger of y and j
 * 7) merger of  ʔ and b
 * 8) merger of m̥ and m
 * 9) merger of h and ḥ
 * 10) merger of ḫ and r
 * 11) merger of ḏ and z
 * 12) merger of š and z
 * 13) merger of ṣ́ and ṣ
 * 14) merger of ṣ and s
 * 15) merger of g and q
 * 16) merger of ṭ and ṱ
 * 17) epenthesis of vowels between some consonant clusters
 * 18) dissimilation of dentals
 * 19) dissimilation of DVD# into DVr#
 * 20) dissimilation of #DVD into #(V)sVD
 * 21) loss of glottals
 * 22) loss of root system (morphological)