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Re: Proposal: Sound Change Documentation Project

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Sunday, April 28, 2002, 17:59
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 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com