Re: YADPT (D=Dutch)
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 9, 2003, 11:56 |
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At 19:13 8.11.2003, John Cowan wrote:
>Not surprising. Finnish and Bengali both have only /s/, but regularly
>pronounce it [S]. In Bengali, at least, the close relatives use [s].
Actually what happened is that Old IndoAryan /s\, s`, s_d/
merged as a single sibilant in most Middle IndoAryan --
usually written with the /s_d/ grapheme, but in some
languages the /s\/ grapheme was used. Later most NIA
languages reintroduced an /S/ <> /s_d/ distinction through
loans from Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Now the funny
thing is that the MIA forerunner of Bengali was an /s_d/
grapheme language, but nevertheless the single sibilant
phoneme of Bengali is [S] everywhere except immediately
before a /t_d/! BTW the Bengali orthography continues
to distinguish three sibilants as if nothing happened
since OIA. Damned be the Bengali schoolkids!
/BP 8^)
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