1. Type C languages (in which /t/ Assibilates before /i/ and (if present) /j/) are listed in (19)

2. Assibilate (third-person singular simple present Assibilates, present participle assibilating, simple past and past participle Assibilated) (linguistics, phonetics) To change into or pronounce with the accompaniment of a sibilant sound or sounds

3. In all of the Type C languages in our survey but two (i.e., Hittite [19a] and Dutch [19b]) /t/ Assibilates before /i/, but /j/ either does not occur at all or it does exist but it never surfaces after /t/ (as in 10c).