Sound change

[Paul Hopper]

If one traced the various histories of PIE /r/ in, say, French, Danish, and Czech, one would find what at first sight look like quite exotic correspondences.

Paul


> Not quite the same thing, but in the same ballpark:  the Proto-Semitic 
> voiced "emphatic" apical stop (corresponding to the Arabic DaD) went, in 
> Biblical Aramaic, to an unvoiced uvular stop, and from there to a voiced 
> pharyngeal fricative.
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> Wolfgang Schulze wrote:
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>> Dear Colleagues, just a brief question: 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... Best wishes, Wolfgang --
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