Re: Consonants as source of vowels
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 15, 2005, 11:32 |
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:35:26 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
> >...
> > CSX /ni/ --> /nZ\i/ --> /Z\i/ --> /z`i\/ --> /r\=/ --> /@r`/ -->
> > /Ar`/ --> /A/
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> !!
>
> So I assume Japanese /ni/ is *cognate* to Mandarin /@r`/, too.
I was wondering the same. Probably also Korean /i/, since word-initial
/n/ is regularly dropped before front vowels IIRC. (Also, word-initial
/r/ regularly becomes /n/, which is then also dropped if before a
front vowel; hence /juk/ for Mandarin |liu|, I'm guessing from
original */rjuk/ via */njuk/).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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