Re: Proposal: Sound Change Documentation Project

Danny Wier wrote:
>
> I know of one case of x > k -- Chinese loanwords into Japanese. Example:
> Mandarin /han/ [xan] "Chinese", Japanese /kan/ (but Korean /han/)
Or Scottish Loch, being pronounced as "Lok" in other dialects of
English.  Or for that matter, the common pronunciation of Bach as /bak/

Fricative -> Stop changes are common when a word containing an alien
phone is borrowed, but I was referring to changes with in a language's
evolution.

Oh, and also, aspirated stops seem to be more vulnerable to
fricativization than unaspirated stops.

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