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 ==== Formal pronunciations ====
-Allophony in acrolectal forms spoken in Xassj Efjnes is rather complex, entailing several [[w:Feeding order|feeding]] and [[w:Bleeding order|bleeding orders]].
+Allophony in acrolectal forms spoken in Xassj Efjnes is rather complex, entailing several [[w:Feeding order|feeding]] and [[w:Bleeding order|bleeding orders]]. The order of rule application is as follows:
+* Clusters of two plosives become a geminate form of the second plosive.
+* Vowels before dorsal or guttural sounds are backed.
+* The vowels of a given word undergo a process called iterative dissimilation. First, even-numbered vowels in sequences of two or more front vowels (ignoring any intermediary consonants) are backed, and then the same process is applied with fronting of alternating vowels in sequences of two or more back vowels. For instance, the word ''sefjfsakj'', which becomes [r̝̊eɸiɸr̝̊ɑ̝ᵑkˣi] after the first two allophony rules, becomes [r̝̊eɸɯɸr̝̊ɑ̝ᵑkˣi], then [r̝̊eɸɯɸr̝̊æᵑkˣi].
+* /ɾ̃/ becomes [ŋ] before back vowels.
+* /x̪͆/ becomes [j] after vowels other than /i/.
+* Various simple contextual changes are applied, shown in the table below:
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+!
+! word-initial
+! after mora gap
+! intervocalic
+! word-final
+|-
+! /ṽ/
+| [β̞̃]
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+! /ɾ̃/
+|
+| [ʀ̆̃]
+|
+| [ŋ]
+|-
+! /tˣ/
+|
+| [bˠ]
+| [dˠ]
+| [t]
+|-
+! /ᵑkˣ/
+|
+|
+| [ᵑgˠ]
+| [ᵑk]
+|-
+! /ɸ/
+| [s]
+| [s]
+| [ɹ]
+|
+|-
+! /r̝̊/
+| [ʜ]
+| [ʜ]
+|
+|
+|-
+! /x̪͆/
+| [ɰ]
+|
+|
+|
+|}
+* Vowels before [j] are raised.
+* [ɸ] is elided postvocalically, and the previous vowel is given [[w:Compensatory lengthening|compensatory lengthening]].
+* Epenthetic [ɡ] is added before words which begin with a vowel.
+* In sequences of a vowel and a nasal or prenasalized consonant, the vowel is nasalized and the consonant loses its nasal quality.
+* Velar aspiration is lost word-finally.