Re: Phonology gaps (was: Language Sketch: Gogido)

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:32:19 -0400, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
wrote:

>More clear-cut is Mongolian /p b t d/ > /ph p th t/ but no /k g/ >
>/kh k/. Or, at least, no /g/ > /k/, I've no idea if /k/ > /x/ went thru an
>aspirate or not. It's in any case in the wrong direction from what we want,
>nor a merger...
O.o

So that leaves Mongolian with a stop inventory of, what, /p_h t_h   p t
g/?  Precisely backward in both the voiceless and voiced series from
typological normalcy?  I dunno about you, but that makes me wary of using
its aspirated series to speak to any general trends either...

Checking Wikipedia, it says in fact that contemporarily /k_h/ has been
reintroduced in loans, as well as that /p_h/ only occurs in loans.  So did
your /p_h/ < /p/ go somewhere else?

Alex