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Please note that word-finally all sounds are unvoiced, in all of the Dutch dialects. My word final /r/ feels discriminated. (as do my /m/ , /n/, /N/ and /l/ but that's more obvious). If it'd be devoiced word-finally, it would merge with /x/ for me. My /x/ is pronounced [X] and my /r/ is pronounced ...

As TheGoatMan mentions, I've attempted to make reconstructions of pre-syncope PIE. But it's safe to say that I, like everybody else, don't fully understand what is going on. :P What I find remarkable is that when you have a stem and place a suffix behind it the accent moves towards the suffix. That ...

Hah you're right. I found tabiHito as a personal name in my dictionary though. Man, I can't think of the example right now, but there are some indications that when the preceding syllable is voiced rendaku is also often blocked. Names are notorious for having rendaku variants. yamada, yamata honda, ...

'Rendaku can't occur if the second element of a compound already has a voiced element (that has a voiceless counterpart, m,n and r don't block rendaku'. The restraints are a bit more restrictive, like the previous syllable sometimes has influence too. tabi-hito is the form, not tabi-bito, which is p...

It was possible (and remains possible dialectally) to stack wa on wo , yielding -wo-ba . (Yes, rendaku.) Sweet! I once wrote a paper on Rendaku hoping to find some way to not make it seem batshit crazy irregular. It kinda did the opposite. Although I now know why we have hitobito but not **tabidabi.

6 Pages and nobody has pointed out yet that a Uvular Fricative shifting to a alveolar fricative is more exotic than anything Armenian ever came up with?! Come on! Sure s > h shift is fine. And I'm wiling to believe that every so often an h > X shift occurs. But this does not happen the other way aro...

Don't waste your times on this Octaviano guy, he is not going to listen to reason. And when you refuse to believe him, he'll start insulting you.

He is the reason why I had to confirm all my replies of my blog before they get posted to the public, because he wouldn't stop insulting other readers.