Re: Sound changes

Muke Tever wrote:

># 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:
>>I have a question concerning the sound changes occuring in the languages
>>
>>I thought of creating a list of sound changes for my conlang (It could
>>remove the regularity that I don't like in Vbazi)
>>
>>But I didn't know how much..
>>
>>How much sound changes may occur naturaly in languages in a gived period
>>of
>>time?
>
>One sound change is probably not going to take less than one generation,
>or about thirty years.
>
About how much time a sound change takes to occur yeah it's obvious that it
take a generation I more interested by the number of them that can occur

>You could have several sound changes going at once, but I wouldn't set
>up a sound change dependent on an earlier change any sooner than that.
>
And, like I just said, How much independant sound changes may occur in a
single generation

Or, how much changes could have occured in a language in a century? 500
years? a millenium?

Could we hear a great diference between one who spoke English two centuries
ago somewhere and those who speak it now at the same place?

I said I thought about:

"/h/ between 2 vowels or at the
end of a word becomes /x/, /dz/ becomes /D/, /hw/ -> /p\/, /bv/ -> /B/"

And there are 12 others I've already created, but so much changes could
probably not occur in a single generation, even if they are all
independant..

>(Unless, say, there is some kind of cultural factor fast-tracking sound
>changes...)
>
Is it possible?

>	*Muke!
- Max