Sound Change Suscepti bility
From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, November 4, 2003, 21:14 |
Quoting David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...>:
> Anyway, there are other possible sound changes, but these are the most
> pertinent ones I can think of at the time. A lot of it has to do with /n/
> and
> /m/'s status as nasals. However, a question to ponder might be why *N so
> easily
> becomes [n].
Interestingly, I endowed Tairezazh with initial N>n early on, long before I
had much idea what kind of sound changes are common or plausible or not.
You're just lucky sometimes, I guess.
(Intervocally and finally, all three Classical Klaish nasals - /m n N/ merges
as [n] in Tairezazh - it just occured to me that I know of no anadewism for
this. Anyone with one at hand?)
Andreas