Re: Sound changes
| From: | julien eychenne <eychenne.j@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 20, 2002, 15:01 |
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At 15:33 20/08/2002 +0100, bn wrote:
>well, you have the gaelic spelling |dh| pronounced
>/G/, which is hardly far off . . . ! ( i don't know if
>|th| was ever /x/ )
I don't know gaelic, but here it's not impossible to suppose that it is
just the friction that was moved, from the teeth to the velum, I mean
almost directly : pronounce a dh, then open it so that it becomes an
approximant an pronounce a gh : you'll see that this is easy to go from
one to another, given the position of the root of the tongue. But of course
this may have happened differently.