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<div dir="auto">Dear all,
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<div dir="auto">Thank you for replying to my earlier question regarding the rarity of certain phonemes in loanwords. All the comments were very helpful.</div>
<div dir="auto">May I ask another question: I would like to know whether in loanwords, <b>consonants correspond more regularly(consistently) to the source consonants than vowels do to the source vowels.</b></div>
<div dir="auto">For example, in English loanwords in Japanese, the consonants correspond correspond more or less regularly (systematically) to their English counterparts. English /p t k m n ng/ all correspond to Japanese /p t k m n Ngu/ respectively, with only a few exceptions.</div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">But for vowels, the correspondence is less consistent: English /æ/ sometimes corresponds to Japanese /a/ and sometimes to Japanese /e/ (<a href="https://langsci.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1012/2019/05/kaneko.pdf">Kaneko 2006</a>).</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">I wonder if this can be generalized to state that, in source-loan relationship, consonant correspondences are generally more consistent than vowel correspondences.</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">I would appreciate any opinion on this.</span></div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">Regards,</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><span style="text-align: center; color: var(--textColor); background-color: var(--backgroundColor);">Ian</span></div>
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