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Simple voicing can account for the vowels, but for the sibilants, the rule would seem to be, in phonological terms, dissimilation of obstruency in continuants.
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And, as regards labial obstruents, it may be English which is the lesser corruptor, since it retains the obstruency which Britan-no-Latin converted to nasality.
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