Thanks guys, this gives me some ideas to work with at least!
Cheers,
Eamon
makeenan wrote:
> Yep this may be a sort of answer for you even though you're asking about
> Natlangs. Because Ok lost it's clicks early in it's development also.
>
> The alveolar click turned into T
> and the uvular into K
>
> -Duke
and
Mau Rauszer wrote:
> I don't really know, though AFMCLs, Long Wer lose its click in an early stage
> of its development, with changes like
>
> ! > q [> k ] in most dialects
> | > tS > dZ
>
> And they were lost at the beginning of the words.
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