Re: partial letter replacement in languages?
| From: | Rodlox <rodlox@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 10, 2004, 16:33 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tristan Mc Leay <conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: partial letter replacement in languages?
> On 10 Dec 2004, at 6.08 pm, Ray Brown wrote:
>
> > On Thursday, December 9, 2004, at 09:25 , Philip Newton wrote:
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> >> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 02:48:04 +0200, Rodlox <Rodlox@...>
> >> but just wanted to note that some
> >> instances of this come when there are two (nearly) concurrent sound
> >> changes such that, say, /d/ becomes /t/ while, say, /D/ becomes /d/ --
> >> so all or most original /d/'s disappeared but there are still /d/'s in
> >> the resulting language that used to be a different sound.
> >
> > Yes, but that is not what I understand Rodlox to mean.
what I meant was, such as ->
/Murad/ becomes /Murat/ *
..yet...
/Abdulhamid/ does not become /Abtulhamid/
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