Re: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds

Henrik Theiling wrote:

>Hi!
>
>BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
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>>On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:36:10 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>>...
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>>>And Icelandic and Faeroese (is that the spelling of the language of
>>>the 'Island of Sheeps').
>>>
>>>
>>Not Faroese.  It has replaced */T/ with /t/, and in a very few cases
>>with /h/!  This inspired me to the wholesale replacement of */T/
>>by /h/ in my Vínlenzka.
>>
>>
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>Really?  That's interesting, I thought it had only replaced /D/ with
>/T/.  I have to check my source for that (a small book I have about
>the Scandinavian languages).
>
>/T/ > /h/ is really funny! :-)
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Happened in quite a few languages.  Irish, for one.  And it's happening
in some Northwestern dialects of English (in England).