Re: partial letter replacement in languages?

On Friday, December 10, 2004, at 05:05 , Rodlox wrote:

[snip]
>
>  what I meant was, such as ->
>
> /Murad/ becomes /Murat/ *
> ..yet...
> /Abdulhamid/ does not become /Abtulhamid/
>

The Murad who was a student of mine last year never became a Murat at any
time  :)

In any case I would hardly expect /bd/ (two voiced plosive) to change to
/bt/ (but I would expect /bt/ to be assimilated to /bd/).

With final plosives it is quite common for the distinction between voiced
& voiceless to be neutralized. Most commonly, as in German, Russian,
Breton and IIRC Turkish, they are all devoiced. Some languages, like Welsh,
  prefer voicing the whole like.

Ray
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