Re: German and English (was Re: Losing languages ...)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 27, 2003, 21:07 |
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At 14:08 26.9.2003 +0300, Isaac Penzev wrote:
>Joe wrote:
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> > AFAIK, it used to be written æa, which would indicate that it was [&]
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>Hmm. I saw |ea| smtimes mixing with |æ|. But with |æa|? Strange.
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>-- Yitzik
What was written |ea|, was pronounced [&@]* and later merged with /e/.
What was written |éa|, was pronounced [&:@]* and later merged with /&:/.
*Some scholars, notably Elmer H. Antonsen think that
|ea| was /V(:)/, |eo| was /7(:)/ and |io| or |ie| was /M(:)/.
I have not yet examined his arguments in any depth,
so I haven't decided what I think.
(Is this developping into our first OEPT? ;-)
/BP 8^)
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