Re: French spelling scheme
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 8, 2001, 20:05 |
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At 18:58 2001-05-07 -0700, Barry Garcia wrote:
>I´ve noticed in certain places where Spanish words were adopted into the
>local languages, ll keeps it´s /l_j/ sound. When i was doing my research
>on Quechua (or was it Aymara) for a bit on Bolivia, one site said ll is
>/l_j/ not /j/:
Probably because those words were borrowed before the /l_j/ > /j/ change
took place in Spanish.
Swedish borrowed a lot of French words during the 18th century before
French underwent the parallel change, and Swedish pronunciation and
respelling still reflect this e.g. in _fåtölj_.
/BP 8^)>
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