Re: Mangling "Bleackley"
| From: | Benct P. Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 29, 2003, 0:30 |
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At 17:55 27.9.2003 -0400, Estel Telcontar wrote:
>Me too
>In Ikanirae Seru, this would come out something like "murikuri"
>[mu4iku4i]. No labials besides [m], no [l], no consonant clusters.
>Not reminiscent of any known word.
When Iroquoian languages, which originally had no labials
at all, borrowed words with labials they were replaced
with velars! The only exception I know of apart from
recent loans with adopted labials is _Mary_ which
became [u~weri].
/BP 8^)
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