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- Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:35 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Bizarre Sound Changes
- Replies: 190
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Re: Bizarre Sound Changes
To all the people who keep asking if palatals can turn to velars: some Formosan languages had PAn *j (which was /ɲ/) > dʑ > g. But they didn't have tɕ, and the one language where it was unconditional (as opposed to a partial merger of *j and *g) first had *g > k. Blust (2009) reconstructs *j as "a ...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 11:42 am
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: Guess the Language, anyone?
- Replies: 1352
- Views: 232497
Re: Guess the Language, anyone?
Is it a language from the Schouten family?
- Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:12 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: voice/trigger systems in austonesian langs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2464
Re: voice/trigger systems in austonesian langs
It is fairly easy to find outstanding resources on austronesian voice systems. I highly recommend Robert Blust: The Austronesian Languages (2009) and Adelaar: The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar (2004?) for a fairly thorough and encompassing overview.