Re: Viko Notes

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> > 3. "v" without "f"?   Well, there's no law against that.  It seems a
> > bit odd, but I'll defer to linguists' opinions about whether it
> > happens in any natural language.
>
> It is probably rare, but not unattested.
[snip interesting info]

Indeed.  Native Georgian words also may have /v/ but no (phonemic)
/f/.  Because Georgian has final devoicing, however, underlying
/v/s devoice word-finally, and I'm also given to understand that
increasingly under the influence of English and other languages,
/f/ is being borrowed outright now:  English _boyfriend_ becomes
Georgian /boifrendi/ rather than /boiprendi/.  (Traditionally,
foreign /f/ is borrowed as aspirated /p/, as in _peodaluri_
"feudal".)

=====================================================================
Thomas Wier          "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n /
Dept. of Linguistics  mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..."
University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought /
1010 E. 59th Street   and not complete one road that has no turn"
Chicago, IL 60637     Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers