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and /kwa/ remained.

The sibilants /s, z/ were palatalized before /i/ and /e/ and had the following distribution:
*/sa, za/:
*/si, zi/:
*/su, zu/:
*/se, ze/:
*/so, zo/:

João Rodrigues noted in Arte da Lingoa de Iapam that the eastern dialects were known for realizing /se/ as , rather than . Note that /se, ze/ has become in Modern Japanese but

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