Re: Consonants as source of vowels
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 17, 2005, 20:25 |
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Pablo Flores wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 00:35:26 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:
> > So I assume Japanese /ni/ is *cognate* to Mandarin /@r`/, too.
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> Well, Japan is /nihon/ in Japanese and "Rben" (/@r`pEn/?) in Mandarin,
> and the Japanese /h/ comes from */p/, so it makes sense, ne?
Sorry to point that out, Pablo, but those are different /ni/'s. Henrik meant
the root 'two', you meant the root 'sun', that probably was something like
/nit/, since in Japanese it reflects as /niq/ (not /ni/, it's a
simplification, originally they had /nippon/), and in Korean as /il/.
-- Yitzik
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