Re: Sound changes

Balazs Sudar sekalge:
>Are there any rules for sound changes in a language?
You move one place of articulation or unit of sonority at a time,
usually*, though you can do this several times with the same sound.

*Often skipping places behind velar or the palatal position.

Simply removing a sound from one dialect and not the other would be a
large change, I think. One of the more popular differences seems to be
rhoticity. There's also voicing (mainly of fricatives), velar fricatives
versus glottal fricatives or velar stops, and dental fricatives versus
dental stops as common changes.

But listen to everyone else. If they agree with me, then you can trust
me; otherwise, don't.

Laimes,
Wright.

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