Voicening

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Voicing (“process by which a phoneme becomes voiced”). nonstandard, rare, uncountable

    "In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt."

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"In spite of its preservation of intervocalic surd stops and of s, Wkh. follows the other Pamir languages in the voicening of the groups ft and xt."

Etymology

Alteration of voicing, probably by analogy to lengthening.

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