Re: The Combos [hj] [hw] and [gw] in Conlangs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 3, 2000, 4:59 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
> Very interesting. So Proto-PN *f > Maori /wh/ > Maori /f/. Sound changes
> are supposed to be irreversible!!
Says who? Sound changes simply happen without referrence to the past!
They're irreversible in the sense that a merger couldn't be reversed,
e.g., if /e/ and /E/ merged to /e/, then later /e/ couldn't go back to
being /e/ and /E/ in the same words as before.
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