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  2. Classical Nahuatl grammar - Wikipedia

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    The suffix -yoh is subject to progressive assimilation following consonant-final stems, e.g. citlālloh ' starry ' from citlāl-in ' star '. [2]: 100–103 Though almost always translated as nouns, the forms -eh, -huah, and -yoh are in fact verbs in the preterite, nominalized as agentive nouns through the process described above.

  3. Language shift - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation is the process whereby a speech-community becomes ... sentence structure and terminology. ... Maltenglish involves the use of English words in Maltese ...

  4. Cultural assimilation - Wikipedia

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    The different types of cultural assimilation include full assimilation and forced assimilation. Full assimilation is the more prevalent of the two, as it occurs spontaneously. [ 2 ] When used as a political ideology, assimilationism refers to governmental policies of deliberately assimilating ethnic groups into the national culture.

  5. Czech phonology - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation of voice is an important feature of Czech pronunciation. Voiced obstruents are, in certain circumstances, realized voiceless and vice versa. It is not represented in orthography, where more etymological principles are applied. Assimilation of voice applies in these circumstances:

  6. Cebuano grammar - Wikipedia

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    Some Cebuano grammar teachers call the noun in the direct case the topic of the sentence, but some others call it the focus, voice, or trigger; as the verb and the other nouns in the sentence have all their noun markers and affixes change accordingly. Cebuano has four voices: the active voice a.k.a. the agent trigger

  7. Muted group theory - Wikipedia

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    He wrote: "In these terms if the male perception yields a dominant structure, the female one is a muted structure." [5] As part of the critical approach to the world, Ardener uses MGT to explore the power and societal structure in relation to the dynamism between dominant and subordinated groups. Moreover, Ardener's concept of muted groups does ...

  8. Assimilation (phonology) - Wikipedia

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    Assimilation is a sound change in which some phonemes (typically consonants or vowels) change to become more similar to other nearby sounds. A common type of phonological process across languages, assimilation can occur either within a word or between words. It occurs in normal speech but becomes more common in more rapid speech.

  9. Assibilation - Wikipedia

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    In the High German consonant shift, voiceless stops /p, t, k/ spirantized to /f, s, x/ at the end of a syllable.The shift of /t/ to /s/ (as in English water, German Wasser) is assibilation.