Re: [p]>[m]?

Henrik Theiling skrev:

> As a side note, Korean borrowed Chinese [v] or [w] as [m],
> e.g. 'Taiwan' is /t&man/ in Korean (maybe this is a bit antiquated,
> however, and nowadays it is really /taiwan/).
>
> **Henrik
This is probably a case of Middle Chinese palatalized
labial stops and nasal becoming labial fricatives in
modern Chinese, while becoming plain labial stops/nasal
in Sino-Korean.

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