Re: Sound changes
From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 8, 2005, 15:12 |
# 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.
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.
(Unless, say, there is some kind of cultural factor fast-tracking sound
changes...)
*Muke!
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