Re: NATLANG ruki-rule in Slavic
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 18, 2003, 11:00 |
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At 23:12 17.8.2003 +0400, Pavel Iosad wrote:
> > I know that Slavic is a ruki-language, i.e. there is an early
> > shift *s > S > x after any of the sounds *r *u *k *i.
>
>True.
>
> > But what happens if the *s preceded a consonant, and in
> > particular *p *t *k. I suspect we don't get
> > xp xt xk in those cases!
>
>In most cases nothing happened AFAIR, i.e. the ruki-rule was blocked.
>
>Of the books I have at home, I can only find a reference in Lashkova,
>L., Uvod v sravnitelnata gramatika na slavyanskite ezici. Sofia: EMAS,
>2000, who writes on pp. 87-88 (hasty translation from Bulgarian at 11
>PM):
>
>'The consonant X - a new phoneme, which arose in Proto-Slavic soil from
>the Indo-European consonant -s- in certain conditions [conditions
>snipped]. The second condition of satemization [sic!] is that the
>consonant must be followed by a vowel. In any case, p, t and k must not
>follow the -s-, or else the process will not be executed'
>
>Hope this helps,
>Pavel
Excellent, thanks! (Always nice to have your expectations confirmed! :-)
BTW how easy/hard is Bulgarian to read for a Russian?
The same order as Danish/Swedish I would suspect.
/BP 8^)
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