Re: THEORY: questions
| From: | Isaac A. Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 11, 2003, 9:38 |
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Katva Rachel Klippenstein:
> People can't think of any natlang where native [h] has
> become any other sound, only ones where it is lost.
> Chinese [h] became [k] in early Japanese borrowings.
> People's conlangs have [h] becoming [x], [k_h] and
> [?h]
Russian turns [h] into [g] or [x] in borrowings, depending on the source
language and loan time, because it lacks [h] completely...
Examples:
Greek |hygiene:| > Ru. |gigijena|
En. |hockey| > Ru. |xokkej|
Yitzik
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