Re: Internal Reconstruction [was Re: Proto-Klingon?]

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:

>     NSg        GenSg
>     wo:k-s     wo:k-is        'voice'
>     stirp-s      stirp-is         'root'
>
> These forms show that you don't have intervocalic voicing going on,
> and, assuming that soundchange operates in a regular fashion,  that
> you can then confidently say that the original forms must have been
> like those in (2), and voicing assimilation occurred.
I should probably correct myself here.  It's not so much intervocalic
(between vowels) as inter-voicing that is not going on.  (Both solutions
are in fact types of assimilation, but they are distinct in their scope.)

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