Re: 'out-' affix in conlangs?

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> Andreas Johansson skrev:
> > Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
> >
> >
> >> Beijing is still _Peking_ ['pe:kiN] in Swedish.
> >
> > You'll also hear [be'jIN] based on the pinyin spelling. Don't ask me why
> the
> > accent changes.
>
> Because of the period when foreign
> words were assumed to be French is
> only 150 years gone, give or take
> 50 years.
Hm? Pinyin has only been around for fifty-odd years.


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Andreas Johansson