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L O W L A N D S - L  -  28 August 2007 - Volume 06
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From: Paul Tatum <ptatum at blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.08.15 (01) [D/E]

Hi all, better late than never ....

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com <mailto:sassisch at yahoo.com>>
> This is phonologically really interesting, folks, what Roland reports
> here, namely that in the older versions of Northwestern Flemish older
> /l/ changed to [k] before (all?) syllable-final stop consonants.  It
> looks a bit like stop assimilation but there is no assimilation as to
> place of articulation, which is highly unusual.
>
> So, as most of you know, Dutch change /l/ to /w/ in such instances, as
> in * zolt > zout 'salt' and * old > oud 'old'. West Flemish dialects
> have a short [U] as the vowel here, so you get zoet [zUt] and oed [Ut]
> respectively.  But in the traditional Northwestern dialects you get
> zoekt [zUkt] and oekd [Ukt] respectively.

the only thing that I could think of was perhaps that in northwestern
Flemish the same change as Dutch happened, so /l/ > /w/ to form a
diphthong ending in a back vowel, which was then became a voiced velar
glide /G/, which was then assimilated to the voiceless stop following.
But even to me this sounds like "folk phonology", especially the change
of /w/ to /G/, which seems to be the reverse of the "normal" direction,
as in "daughter".

Paul Tatum.

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