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Proto-Pfeunic is the common ancestor to Pfeunic, one of the largest branches of the Quihum languages.

voice assimilation: a plain stop (unless following s) is assimilated to a voiced stop within a root
- "An additional constraint prohibited roots containing both a voiced aspirated and a voiceless plosive (**tebʰ-), unless the latter occurs in a word-initial cluster after an *s (e.g. *stebʰ- 'to stiffen'). Taken together with the abundance of *DʰeDʰ-type roots, it has been proposed that this distribution results from a limited process of voice assimilation in pre-PIE, where a voiceless stop was assimilated to a voiced aspirate, if another one followed or preceded within a root."
l > r; lʼ, ł > l
mC, nC, lC > um, un, ul (word-initially)
s > s/z?
z, n', l > r
-sm-, -sn-, -sl-, -sr- > mm, nn, ll, rr
-łm-, -łn- > lm, ll
-ł > -:
m'-, w' > wr-?
What if some z c c' become PPf dentals (d t þ)?
- PQ sc > PPf st
Grimm's law
Verner's law

Similar to PGmc, with addition of ŧ, đ, ŝ /tɬ, dɮ, ɧ/.

Vocalism should be similar to PGmc.

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 '''Proto-Pfeunic''' is the common ancestor to [[Pfeunic languages|Pfeunic]], one of the largest branches of the [[Quihum languages]].
+==Diachronic sketch==
 *voice assimilation: a plain stop (unless following ''s'') is assimilated to a voiced stop within a root
 **"An additional constraint prohibited roots containing both a voiced aspirated and a voiceless plosive (**tebʰ-), unless the latter occurs in a word-initial cluster after an *s (e.g. *stebʰ- 'to stiffen'). Taken together with the abundance of *DʰeDʰ-type roots, it has been proposed that this distribution results from a limited process of voice assimilation in pre-PIE, where a voiceless stop was assimilated to a voiced aspirate, if another one followed or preceded within a root."