Re: /T/ -> /t_d/?

Carsten Becker wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have got two maybe a little stupid questions.
>
> My first question is whether ...
>
> (A) it would be likely that /T/ changes into /t_d/?
It happened in the mainland Scandinavian languages,
cf. Eng. _thing_, Ger. _Ding_ Sw. _ting_.

> My naming language Ambrian has /T/ and /t/, but Ayeri has
> only got /t_d/. Nevertheless I think /t_d/ can develop
> easily to a fricative. So would it be ...
>
> (B) sensible at all to have a sound change if the language
>    at least in some dialects accepts /T/ (the ones near to
>    the area where Ambrian is/was spoken? I guess /T/ would
>    change to /s/ in conservative dialects, just like many
>    Germans do because they're ashamed to pronounce /T/.
I don't know about shame, but there are instances of
*[T] > [s] in Middle Persian, although you also get
*[T] > [h] in some cases, as well as *[s] > [h] in
most cases.  Ergo you get cases of *[T] > [h] spelled
|s|.

> Thanks,
> Carsten
>
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