Re: Finnish English
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 21:30 |
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On 12/13/05, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> Don't forget either that several common sounds that Finnish lacks (primarily
> /f b g S/) have settled in as "loanword phonemes" in several dialects. Does
> such a thing that happen in any other languages BTW?
Assuming I understand what you mean by "loanword phoneme", then sure,
this happens all the time. The sound /x/ has such a status in most
English dialects (though not Scots English) . Spanish has several
loanwords with funky non-native sounds like /S/, /Z/, and /dZ/; of
course, US immigrant Spanish, as a minority dialect spoken within a
majority-English population, has more of these than other dialects.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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