Re: YACL: Thylean (alternate-history)

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:53:53 +0100, Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
wrote:


>>Well, I would if I could, but no CL word had a final g, so...tak alligevel
>>:)
>
>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).
Indeed. I'll be quite open to that, actually. Though I can't think of many
CL words starting with a /g/...wonder why. But in any case, it would apply
to /k/ as well. I could have /a/ cause initial palatalization as in French,
cf. "chateau".

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