Re: Rhoticity
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 2, 2001, 22:38 |
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CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> And it's not impossible for the change *n > r to occur, a change
>which occurred in the history of my conlang.
I'm not sure if this is a good example, but in my conlang, instead of
going the mbr route from mn (as in Spanish), montreiano went: mn > nn > nr
> ndr. Example of n becoming rhotic?
culmine > culmne > cunne > cunre > cundre
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