Re: Q Re: Sound Change (On Glide)

David J. Peterson sikyal:

> (snip)
> My question: Does anyone have any examples of this happening in other
> languages (nat or non)?  I don't believe I've ever seen another example
> of this (though I've seen countless where obstruents become palatalized
> before front vowels and labialized before back vowels, resulting *kind
> of* in diphthongs with on-glides), so I was wondering how it worked, and
> if it could work another way.
Romanian has a somewhat analogous change whereby /o/ and /e/ become /oa/
and /ea/ in stressed syllables. The triggering context for this is
somewhat different--it depends on the next vowel, but it is restricted to
contexts where Proto-Romance has a long vowel.

Romanian also has e > ie as well, but only in contexts where Spanish
doesn't.

My conlang Tzingrizil has a u: > wa and i: > ja, which is related.

In any case, it doesn't seem to be a rare change.


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