Re: Reasonable sound changes.
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 9, 2005, 11:52 |
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On 9 Jan 2005, at 10.47 pm, Carsten Becker wrote:
> Hey!
>
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:01:53 -0800, bob thornton <arcanesock@...>
> wrote:
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>> First great sound change:
>> [...]
>> /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 :)
>> Second great sound change:
>>
>> Plosive clusters simplify, i.e /kt/ -> /k/, etc.
>
> Italian has it just the other way round as far as I know, i.e. [kt] ->
> [t]
> or maybe [?t].
That doesn't mean it can't happen the other way round ;)
--
Tristan.
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