Histling-l Digest, Vol 48, Issue 4

[Guillaume Jacques]

>
> I was wondering whether you are aware of cases of phonological change
> whereby a /?/ would change into a /x/, as in the following examples found in
> a few Modern Greek dialects:
>
> (1)     Cappadocian Greek
>        klo/?/ara 'spindle'     >       klo/x/ara       (realised
> allophonically as [x])
>        /?/eliko 'female.N'     >       /x/eliko        (realised
> allophonically as [?])
>
> (2)     Cypriot Greek
>        a/?/asi 'almond'                >       a/x/asi (realised
> allophonically as [x])
>        /?/elo 'I want'                 >       /x/elo  (realised
> allophonically as [?])
>
> I would be interested in considering relevant examples not only of
> diachronic change but also of synchronic bilingual speech effects.
>
>
In Arapaho (Algonquian), an initial h- is inserted at the beginning of any
word starting with a vowel, though I am not sure whether a glottal stop
intermediate stage is involved.

For instance, proto-Algonquian *ameθkwa 'beaver' > hébes (compare for
instance Ojibwe amik)

See Ives Goddard 1974 (in IJAL, who omits the initial h- in the
transcription since it is predictable; there are no words starting with a
vowel in the language) and Marc Picard 1994.


Same phenomenon in Hochank (or Winnebago, Siouan), h- is inserted in words
starting with an initial short vowel e.g. proto-Mississippi
Valley Siouan *is^tá > his^já 'face' (compare Lakhota is^tá 'eye'). cf. the
unpublished Comparative Siouan Dictionary.

Guillaume Jacques



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Guillaume Jacques
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