Re: THEORY: questions

Staving Mau Rauszer:
>Rachel Klippenstein  <estel_telcontar@...> 2003.03.10. 00:41:31
>-5h-kor írta:
>
> > Is there any sound that [h] is likely to change into?
> > Might it change into [?]?  I've heard that [h] has a
> > stronger tendency to be lost than to change into other
> > sounds.
>
>I don't know, AFMCLs, in Meyadhew it disappeared word-initially
>and had become [x] medially and sometimes [k_h]. In Long Wer
>[h] tends to disappear between two identical vowels, and during
>its evolution it had been eluded initially while voiced h (i don't know
>the sampa sign)
>had become [h].
In Yagh Tyalpy Tyubvul, [h] becomes [?h], part of a general mutation of
fricatives to affricates.

In Magikimnaz, [h] is lost. However, a palatal glide appears to mediate
vowel hiatus, so intervocal and word initial [h] effectively becomes [j].
In the language's own frame of reference though, it's more a case of each
vowel having a iotised allophone in postvocal and word initial positions.

Pete Bleackley

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