Re: Saying "Thank you."

> As he said, it does indeed arise from external borrowing. IIRC, the
only
> known cases of a fricative to stop shift occur in Papua New Guinea.  It
is
> at any rate an extremely rare type of sound change.
Eh?  I was under the impression that [T] > [t] and [D] > [d] were fairly
common.  They occur in many dialects of English where you can hear [wIt
d&t] for [wIT D&t].  German had a [T] > [d] change, and I'm pretty sure
Arabic and Hebrew had [T] > [t] and [D] > [d].  At other places of
articulation, the change is less common, though.


Jesse S. Bangs     Pelíran
jaspax @juno.com
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