Re: Reasonable sound changes.

Hi!

Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> writes:
> On 9 Jan 2005, at 10.47 pm, Carsten Becker wrote:
>...
> >> /k_w/ -> /p/
> >
> > I don't know much about sound changes, but this feels a little
> > strange. "QU"
> > changes into "P", doesn't it?
>
> Perfectly normal, in fact. Happened in the P-celtic languages (hence
> the name), something similar happened in Greek, I think there were some
> Italic languages it happened it, and it happened in Føtisk, too :)
Too add another comment, it is not only frequent, but also sensible:
take the point of articulation from /w/ (labial) and the type of
consonant from /k/ (plosive) -> labial plosive = /p/.

**Henrik