> Ed Heil wrote:
> > Well, acoustically "f" and "hw" are nearly identical,
>
> I'm not sure about that. "hw" was /xw/, wasn't it? If it was merely
> /w_0/ then they'd certainly be quite similar.
>
> Besides Eric Christopherson has already given an attested example of the
> voiced equivalent, latin "lingua" to Sardinian "limba", /gw/ -> /b/. If
> there's already an attested example of that, why should the voiceless
> /kw/ -> /p/ be any harder to believe? I can imagine /kw/ --> /kw_0/ -->
> /kP/ --> /kp/ --> /p/.
>
> /kp/ --> /kw/, on the other hand, I find hard to picture. Epenthetic
> vowel /k@p/ or simplification (/k/ or /p/), or even a click /p!/ I find
> reasonable descendents of /kp/, but not /kw/.
>
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