sound replacement in loans

Sun Dec 16 07:29:10 UTC 2007

Dear friends,
Claire Bowern had suggested to post my following question (originally 
addressed to the LINGTYP list) to HISTLING, too.:

Within the context of my research on Caucasian Albanian (Old Udi), I  
came across a rather remarkable instance of 'sound replacement' in 
loans: A palatal voiceless fricative (<sh>) is (systematically?) 
replaced by a voiced pharyngeal stop. I wonder whether some of you have 
come across a parallel process in other languages...To be more concrete: 
What I have in mind are cases of replacement within loans (!), not sound 
changes within the history of a given language. That is, Language A has 
a <sh> in a term that is borrowed into Language B with a voiced 
pharyngeal (I write <%>) instead, say /asha/ in Language A (donor 
language) > /a%a/ in Language B (recipient language). [Unfortunately, 
I'm not allowed to give concrete examples from Caucasian Albanian, as 
long as the corresponding text (the so-called Caucasian Albanian 
Palimpsest) has not been edited. Sorry for this! But I have to respect 
the copyright of others....]
Thanks for any suggestions....
Best wishes,
Wolfgang
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