r and s

[Ralf-Stefan Georg]

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At 11:17 Uhr -0400 24.10.1998, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
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>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.
 
 
And there is the Bolghar-Turkic Rhotacism, which changes Common Turkic
*-z-, -z to -r-, -r in the languages of the Bolghar branch, viz. Volga
Bolghar and Modern Chuvash.
St.G.
 
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