/?/ > /x/

[Pekka Sammallahti]

Some westernomost dialects of North Saami (Uralic, in northern  
Finland, Norway and Sweden) have undergone <th> > /h/ (as in  
muo<th><th>á > muohhá/muohá 'younger maternal aunt'; orthographic á is  
phonologically a double/long vowel). The /h/ is practically without  
oral friction, though. In some subdialects it participates in grade  
alternation (nom.sg. muohhá, nom.pl. muoháh) in others not (nom.sg.  
muohá, nom.pl. muoháh).

Pekka Sammallahti


Quoting Petros Karatsareas <pk299 at cam.ac.uk>:

> Dear all,
>
> 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 [ç])
>
> (2)	Cypriot Greek
> 	a/?/asi 'almond'		>	a/x/asi	(realised allophonically as [x])
> 	/?/elo 'I want' 		> 	/x/elo 	(realised allophonically as [ç])
>
> I would be interested in considering relevant examples not only of   
> diachronic change but also of synchronic bilingual speech effects.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your consideration.
>
> Petros Karatsareas
>
>
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> Petros Karatsareas
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>
> British School at Athens
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> 10676 Athens
> Greece
>
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>
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