Re: The letter j\
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 19, 2002, 20:23 |
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, David Peterson wrote:
> My Hungarian book has /S/ and /Z/, and then the two palatal stops...
> This one /j\/ isn't a voiced, palatal stop, but a voiced, palatal fricative.
> Anyway, as per the palatal stop to alveo-palatal affricate change, it's well
> documented. As for Hungarian, we're just going to have to wait and see. ;)
Well, what I can say now is that Hungarian "gy" (I don't know the
IPA/SAMPA offhand...voiced palatal stop) is a result of a change from
Proto-Finno-Ugric /-JtS-/.
---ferko
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