Re: The Lumanesian is BACK!!!
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 12, 1998, 22:22 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> In a word, suffixes in Old Chinese (null, -s, -h, -p/t/k) became
> the four tones of Middle Chinese; the -s and -h got lost and
> the -p, -t, -k remained. In Mandarin the fourth tone vanished
> when the stop finals were lost, but the first tone split into two
> (keeping the number of tones at four).
How did the first tone split?
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