RGH law
linguistics
Also known as: van der Tuuk’s first law
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classification of Austronesian languages
- In Austronesian languages: Early classification work
…to be known as the RGH law, or van der Tuuk’s first law; it describes the recurrent sound correspondence of Malay /r/ to Tagalog /g/ and Ngaju Dayak /h/, as in Malay urat, which corresponds to Tagalog ugat and Ngaju Dayak uhat ‘vein.’ In addition, van der Tuuk’s grammar of…
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