Re: k(w)->p

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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