Re: OT: Azurian.

On Aug 4, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:50:54 -0400, John Vertical
> <johnvertical@...> wrote:
>
>>> I haven't progressed much with Azurian lately. I am still struggling
>>> with the phonology and sound laws. The trouble is that I don't have
>>> much evidence to go by, since most of the names I have is stolen
>>> from
>>> Norwegian phonebooks or similar, with an emphasis on the western
>>> ones. But I do have some place names. And some of them give a
>>> clue or
>>> two.
>>>
>>> For example, Sauga seems to imply that final /D/ is retained, unlike
>>> most of mainland Norway, and subject to change, at least when
>>> followed by a vowel morpheme. Hmm, if /D/ turns to /g/, if that's
>>> what the g stands for, what then happens to the original /g/?
>>
>>> LEF
>>
>> Was it Irish that had a change of D > G? I don't remember offhand
>> what or
>> where Azurian was supposed to be, but it might be relevant.
>>
>> John Vertical
>
> IIRC West Munster Irish changes D to G.
>
> Jeff
It's also /G/ in Scottish Gaelic. I've always figured /D/ originally
developed to /h\/, parallel to the development of /T/ to /h/, and
then shifted to the similar /G/... but that's just my theory. I like
those sound changes, especially the /T/ > /h/ one.

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