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Plain stops would vary allophonically depending on whether they appeared in modal voicing syllables of breathy voiced syllables.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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The final velar nasal is a sound that occurs only allophonically in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, so again, the nearest sound was used: n.
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