Re: Reasonable sound changes.
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2005, 16:09 |
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On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:52:25 +1100, Tristan McLeay
<conlang@...> wrote:
> On 9 Jan 2005, at 10.47 pm, Carsten Becker wrote:
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>> 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 :)
It happened in Thagojian, too, more or less...
kw > p / _ (i,e)
kw > k / _ (u,o)
gw > b / _ (i,e)
gw > g / _ (u,o)
gwh > f / _ (i,e)
gwh > x / _ (u,o)
This relies partially on PIE |kw| being a labiovelar sound, and not a
labialised velar.
Paul