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Re: Synthesis of many topics

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Saturday, April 29, 2000, 4:39
dirk elzinga wrote:
> Chemehuevi, a Numic language of the Lower Colorado River Valley, > underwent the change from Proto-Numic *m to w intervocalically:
What evidence exists for that change? Presumably cognates with /m/, but how is it known that /w/ wasn't the original form? -- "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor