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Re: YACL: Thylean (alternate-history)

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 22:12
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:53:53 +0100 > From: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
> No no no! It doesn't have to be final g. I was just using Danish as an > example. I'm sure it'll work for initial g as well. In Swedish, for > instance, some words I have heard with initial g in Danish start with [j]. > Like Danish [gi?] for Swedish [ji] "give" (or something like that).
That's a difference between the developments of Danish and Swedish that it's useful to be aware of: Swedish mangles the inherited onset consonants but largely maintains final/intervocalic consonants and vowels pretty well --- and Danish is just the other way around. Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)