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Re: OT: Azurian.

From:Eric Christopherson <rakko@...>
Date:Sunday, August 5, 2007, 2:37
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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