Re: USAGE: Language revival

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> Speech communities will sometimes abandon a sound change when it has
> only been applied to some parts of the lexicon.
And some sound changes are plain unpredictable in their
application.  In Modern French, why francais, but danois?
No apparent reason (OF had -ois for both).

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