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Inspired by Moroccan Colloquial Arabic, I am contemplating adding emphatics to the evolution of Uchunata. Specifically short /u/ and /o/ affect contiguous consonants within the same syllable. When /u/, /i/ become /i\/ and /o/, /e/ become /@/, the changed consonant remains. Thus [et] becomes[8t] /ot/, but [ut] becomes [i\t_?\] /yt/ [pokula] > [f8_?\qr_?\a] /focra/ Then, when the Marinids take over for two centuries, the emphatics, clearly heard by the Berber settlers, are written down. The Fortunatian contingent to al-Wiraniyya (Islamic South America) carry the phonetics and orthography with them. What do you think?