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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