Re: Proposal: Sound Change Documentation Project

Danny Wier wrote:
>From: "Nik Taylor" <fortytwo@...>
>
> > Peter Clark wrote:
> > > For instance, which has a
> > > higher degree of probability: k > x or x > k?
> >
> > Stops are more likely to become fricatives than the other way around,
> > especially in environments such as intervocalic or syllable-finally
> > (incidentally, early Uatakassi had syllable-final stops -> fricatives;
> > while Chúju, a descendant I'm currently working on, had IV non-geminate
> > stop -> fricatives)
>
>I know of one case of x > k -- Chinese loanwords into Japanese. Example:
>Mandarin /han/ [xan] "Chinese", Japanese /kan/ (but Korean /han/). In a
>conlang, Greek /x/ corresponds with Linkua (Troll) /k/, which is made up of
>100% loanwords.
Low German [x] became [k] in Swedish loans, eg _lukt_ "smell" from LG
_lucht_.

                                               Andreas

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