Re: Borrowing a word
| From: | Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 21, 2003, 0:24 |
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At 06:25 PM 8/20/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Isidora Zamora wrote:
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> > 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?
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>[kuno] would be the most likely. [uno] is another possibility if the
>language permits vowel-initial words.
I realized that it slipped my mind that the voiceless stops in the lanuage
doing the borrowing are fairly heavily apirated in all positions (in order
to help make the distinction between the labialized and non-labialied
series more prominant), and I would think that would be a factor in favor
of [k_huno].
Isidora