Re: Borrowing a word
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 23:55 |
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--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:
> How do you think a language would go about
> borrowing the word [xuno] when
> the language doing the borrowing has no /x/
> phoneme nor any /h/
> either?
English (standard American, RP) doesn't have [x],
we'd probably borrow it as /kunow/. Compare with
Scots /lOx/ > English /lOk/.
> the phonemic inventory of the language trying
> to borrow [xuno] (subject to
> further refinement) is:
>
> t_S d_Z
There's a couple possibilities as well.
Padraic.
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