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Conditional vowel shifts

A number of roots appear to diverge from the main picture of unstressed syllables in a different way: while Finnic, Samic and Samoyedic languages all have one of the "typical" stem shapes, they may not quite match. Words in these classes often feature discrepancies in the vowels of the first syllable as well, e.g. Finnic *a or *oo (suggesting Proto-Uralic *a or *i) against Samic *a (suggesting Proto-Uralic *ä) or *oa (suggesting Proto-Uralic *o).

A number of such cases may result simply

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