Chamorro origins

[John Lynch]

	John Myhill wrote:

	For what it's worth, the change kw to p happened in the Romance
languages,
	e.g. Latin [akwa] stayed the same in Italian but became [apa] in
Romanian.
	I haven't heard of the reverse process.

	For what it's worth, languages of Southern Vanuatu have *p > *kw
in certain phonological environments, generally associated with a
neighbouring round vowel. E.g.,

	Proto Oceanic *puaq 'fruit' > Kwamera n at -kwa (@ = schwa, n at - =
article)
	POc *tupa 'bury' > Kwamera a-rukw

	John Lynch