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Re: Borrowing a word

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 23:27
Isidora Zamora 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?
[kuno] would be the most likely. [uno] is another possibility if the language permits vowel-initial words. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42

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