Re: Consonants as source of vowels

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:35:26 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

> > CSX  /ni/ --> /nZ\i/ --> /Z\i/ --> /z`i\/ --> /r\=/ --> /@r`/ -->
> > /Ar`/ --> /A/
>
> !!
>
> So I assume Japanese /ni/ is *cognate* to Mandarin /@r`/, too.
Well, Japan is /nihon/ in Japanese and "Rben" (/@r`pEn/?) in Mandarin,
and the Japanese /h/ comes from */p/, so it makes sense, ne?


--Pablo

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