r and s

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Sat Oct 24 15:17:35 UTC 1998


----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Paul J Hopper <ph1u+ at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
 
>On Sheila Watts' query about s/r alternations in Germanic and Latin
>(so-called rhotacism): I can't think of other examples of it outside
>these two groups
 
There are the Sanskrit and Nuorese (Sardinian) sandhis, where -s > -r
before a voiced consonant at the start of the following word.
 
 
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam



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