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Kinyarwanda: Dahl's Law on Bantu Language
Added by Emmanuel Habumuremyi 435 days ago
1. kumva => kumvira: ku-/-umv-ir-a => kutumvira: ku-ta-/-umv-ir-a => ukutumvira: u-ku-ta-/-umv-ir-a (rules: u becomes ø before a vowel; u becomes ø before a vowel).
2. gutwara: ku-/-twar-a => kudatwara: ku-ta-/-twar-a = ukudatwara: u-ku-ta-/-twar-a (Here Dahl's Law on Bantu language is applied: a voiceless stop, such as /p t k/, became voiced (/b d ɡ/) when immediately followed by a syllable with another voiceless stop.).
ku-twa-ra: ku-> gu because of t in twa
Also, look at negative ta which becomes da and ku- which replaces gu- before *-da-*.
ku-ta-twa-ra: ta->da because of twa
My problem: applying this law starts with the syllable near the stem? I have not yet got it.
Other examples:
*-t(a)-* before stem starting with vowel.
ta before stem starting with b (kutabana), d (kutadudubiza), g (kutagaburira), j (kutajarajara), m (kutaminina), n (kutanyara), r (kutarya), s (kutasama), t (kudatura), v (kutavura), w (I have not found a verb whose stem starts with w), y (kutayobora), z (kutazuka).
da before stem starting with c (kudacucuma), f (kudafuma), h (kudahaga), k (kudakaraba), p (kudapima),
Note: The stem starts with /-
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