Re: Elvish ideas ...

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.

                                                                   Andreas

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