--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 20:51:49 -0800 Danny Wier <dawier@...>
> writes:
> > Now High German (inc. Standard German, Yiddish, Alemanic etc.) has
> a
> > further shift in voiceless stops:
> > p > pf
> > t > tz/z
> > k > ch ([ç] or [x] depending on preceding letter)
> I don't think Yiddish has any _pf_...although not remembering very
> much
> of my one year of it two years ago, i can't think of any cognates
> with
> English _p-_ words to figure out what it does have there.
You're right, no /pf/ in Yiddish. It's either /p/ or /f/; I can check
on that tomorrow at the library.
Of course the /t/ > /ts/ and /k/ > /X/ shift still applies.
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