Re: Kijeb sandhi

On 29.3.2007 David J. Peterson wrote:

 >
 > This is a *much* more elegant way of presenting the same
 > information! I may have to borrow it.

Go ahed. In fact *I* borrowed it from "Teach Yourself
Sanskrit" by Coulson!

 > Oh, wait! I misread the table! I need more practice at
 > this. I see that is, indeed, *exactly* what you did:
 >
 > - *rr > dr
 > - *ww > gw/b
 > - *yy > gy
 >
 > Makes sense! I see we came to the same conclusion
 > independently. Hurrah!
 >

It's pretty natural I think, since /gj/ is realized as [J\].
There is also a rule whereby

- y > gy / i _ (a,u)
- y > g / V _ i
- w > (gw,b) / u _ (a,i)
- w > g / V _ u

As for *r it represents several allophones including [4 4\
l](*) -- _ry_ is definitely normally [L](**) -- but
excluding [m]. The idea is that *rr at one point was [r],
but it got strengthened to [d4] or [dr].

(*) Where <4\> is BXS for CXS <l\>, an alveolar lateral
flap. I use <l\> for an alveopalatal lateral; it is lacking
in IPA, but Unicode includes Y.R. Chao's symbols for that
sound as well as the alveoplatal stops and nasals which I
write <t\ d\ n\>.

(**) Of the daughter languages Kidilib, Clasical Sohlob and
Heleb have _r ry_ > /r l/, but Linjeb has _r ry_ > /l L/,
and the southern dialect yet in the pipeline is likely to
have _r ry_ > /r j/ and _d_ > l / V_V.

BTW I'm at a loss how to express the various levels of
development in plain text. On the wiki I use italics for
Kijeb and bold face for the daughter languages. Using *word*
for the daughter languages and _word_ for Kijeb kind of
feels wrong, since it is Kijeb which is intrafictionally
largely reconstructed, since its writing system is
defective, and now Pre-Kijeb enters the picture! Maybe I
should change the notation to:

:                 	plaintext	wiki
:
:  	daughters     	_word_		bold
:   Kijeb		  	*word		italics
:   attested K.   	_WORD_    	SMALL-CAPS
:   reconstr. K.    **word		*italics
:   Pre-Kijeb     	**word**	**italics

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