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The Gotho-Romance family suffered very few lenitions, but in most cases the stops /p t k/ are lenited to /b d ɡ/ if not in onset position, before or after a sonorant or in intervocalic position as a geminate. A similar process happens with /b/ that is lenited to /β/ in the same conditions. The unstressed labio-velar /kʷ/ delabialises before hard vowels, as in: | The Gotho-Romance family suffered very few lenitions, but in most cases the stops /p t k/ are lenited to /b d ɡ/ if not in onset position, before or after a sonorant or in intervocalic position as a geminate. A similar process happens with /b/ that is lenited to /v~β/ in the same conditions. The unstressed labio-velar /kʷ/ delabialises before hard vowels, as in: | ||
* Gothic ''ƕan'' [ʍan] > *[kʷɐn] > Luthic ''can'' [kɐn]. | * Gothic ''ƕan'' [ʍan] > *[kʷɐn] > Luthic ''can'' [kɐn]. | ||