Re: Using word generators (was Re: Semitic root word list?)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 15:02 |
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On 1/10/07, Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> wrote:
> I'm sure there are examples of languages with phonemes
> restricted to loans, of which some probably only occur in unusual and
> even perhaps ad-hoc loans, but I don't know any off the top of my head.
> (Urdu from Arabic? Welsh from English?)
I think Finnish has this with voiced stops.
IIRC /d/ exists as a development of something else, but /g/ and /b/
are present only in loans (native Finnish words, and older loans, only
have /k/ and /p/). Note that |ng|, while occurring in native Finnish
words, is /N:/ or thereabouts, rather than anything with /g/ in it.
I presume John Vertical will know more.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>