Re: hello?
| From: | Brian Betty <bbetty@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 1999, 16:23 |
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Danny Wier wrote: "By the way, how many natlang examples can be found of
the shift n > l? I can think of Afro-Asiatic, where Egyptian n often
corresponds to Semitic l, and maybe cases in Latin where there's
assimilation."
See also the Spanish surname Menendez ~ Melendez. I don't know how common n
> l is in certain Spanish dialects beyond this name. Anyone else?
BB
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