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August Conrady
German scholar
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study of Sino-Tibetan consonant alternation
- In Sino-Tibetan languages: Initial consonant alternation
The German Oriental scholar August Conrady linked this morphological system to the causative s- prefix, which was supposed to have caused devoicing of voiced stops. (Voicing is the vibration of the vocal cords, as occurs, for example, in the sounds b, d, g, z, and so on. Devoicing, or…
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