Re: The Combos [hj] [hw] and [gw] in Conlangs
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 2, 2000, 3:06 |
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>:
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>> To my knowledge, French had (/have?) it, Spanish has it, Welsh and
>> Cornish have it. Of course English has it.
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>French used to have it indeed (from Germanic loanwords like wardon ->
>gwardare), but it lost it soon (sound change /gw/ -> /g/). Now it has
[snaps fingers!] French creoles have it: the group gr- is often
pronounced as [gw]. Well, Kr > Kw.
Padraic.