Re: USAGE: syllables

En réponse à Nik Taylor :


>Presumably the ancestor of Yivrian?
>
>I'd analyze that grouping of [l] as proof that [l] is descended from
>something else.  It's in the same group as nasals, so one possibility is
>that [l] is derived from [n].  Yoruba, for example, uses [n] and [l] as
>allophones.
It could also have been originally a lateral *fricative*. Since in Yivrian
stops and fricatives have the same sonority position, it is possible. But
that may only be because I'm partial towards lateral fricatives ;))) .

Christophe Grandsire.

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