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- From: koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finn...
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 16:04:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.164904.6398@desire.wright.edu> <Jan.3.19.08.23.1993.201@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au>
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- In article <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au>, jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
- |> ... That change seems
- |> natural enough: from lateral to lateral fricative, then
- |> devoiced. Z to r is also strange; once again, it's usually
- |> the other way around as far as I know, e.g. French chaire
- |> --> chaise, and, if memory serves, Latin r --> s.
- |> Off-hand, I can't think of cases of a regular change of
- |> sh into l, or of z into r. Could it be that it is Chuvash
- |> that has been the conservative one, phonologically?
- I know of several other instances of l or r to s or sh (or voiced equivalents),
- and I'd tend to agree with Guy that it seems more likely that the Chuvash
- phonology was original. However, I don't recall how Altaicists treat this
- correspondence.
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