[Lingtyp] L > N

[Slavomír Čéplö]

Dear Sergey,

you get that in Maltese, e.g. the verb ltaqa’ “to meet” (root LQGħ < Arabic
لقي with C3 ي replaced by ع) is offen encountered in the imperfect as
jintaqa’ (sg.) or jintaqgħu (pl.) instead of jiltaqa’, jiltaqgħu.

Best,

Slavomír

El ds 20. 9. 2025 a les 14:30 Sergey Loesov via Lingtyp <
lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> va escriure:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>  Are you aware of a shift *l*- > *n*- affecting the onsets of grammatical
> morphemes, specifically in word-initial position?
>
>
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> Thank you very much!
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>
> Sergey
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