Re: Elvish ideas ...

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Quoting Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Andreas:
>>
>>>That would have to involve turning /sj/ (as in a hypothetical
>>>word _seom_ [sjom]) into [S], too. Seems like a very
>>>natural change.
>>
>>Slavic did just that. And wait...
>>
>>A certain Andreas Johansson, today:
>>
>>>Some dialects, eg in Finland, have [S] [for _sj_]
>>
>>What is written _sj_ in Swedish used to *be* _sj_ at some point, unless
>>I am grossly mistaken.
>
>
> No, that's quite correct. And I believe the dialects that have [x] or similar
> got there with [S] as an intermediate stage.
>
> Dutch did the same, too, IIRC.
>
> But there's no law of nature saying that [sj] must necessarily >[S]. Still,
> I'm most probably going to modify Meghean phonology on this point.
Seems quite a common occurence. One near similar example: In Irish the
palatalised form of |s| is [S].

s.
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