>Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:36:50 -0400
> From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>Subject: Re: Mutations in general was Re: Taalen mutations
>On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 09:55 , Peter Clark wrote:
>> Question: I know that other languages (I think some Niger-Bantu ones,
>> IIRC)
>>have mutation systems--would some knowledgable person care to give an
>>outline of
>>one or two of them? I say this because Enamyn's mutation system is
>It's somewhat off the beaten path, but Korean has a number of >mutations.
>I can dig up my reference and post a few if you're interested. :-)
>I envy you, actually. I have a Welsh grammar somewhere but darned if I
>can find it.
>Assassins, Inc. We aim to please.
Malay has an interesting feature in the prefix me [m@.(C)means the consonant
vanishes
me
me-layang
me-masak
me-nanti
me-nganga /ng/ = [N]
me-nyanyi /ny/ = [n^]
me-rampas
mem
mem-buang
mem-(p)ukul
men
men-dukong
men-(t)ipu
men-chabut
men-jawab
meng
meng-ajar
meng-eja
meng-isi
meng-ukor
meng-gulang
meng-hantor
meng-(k)enal
meny
meny-(s)impar
I wonder why the voiceless plosives disappear rather than the voiced? And
maybe the [s] of simpar is etymologically a palatal voiceless plosive [c]?
Also, I'll post some Sanskrit sandhi rules that might be useful. But I've
had to retype this Malay message once already.
"commune id vitium est, hic vivimus ambitiosa
paupertate"
Juvenal, Satires 3.182-3
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