User:Soap/East
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The parent language. Had only /h/ using internal reconstruction, but this could have been several fricatives that merged.
Bilabials: p b m Alveolars: t d n l r Postalveolars: č ǯ Palatals: (y) Velars: k ġ ŋ (Ø) h
Vowels were /a i u ə/.
Ideally, User:Soap/Birch is a branch of this which splits off after the lenition of /č ǯ/ to /s y/ (conditionally) and probably also after a re-shaping of the vowel system to /a e i o u/ but before most of the other shifts that make Birch what it is.