From: stlatos <sean@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Basque onddo
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Basque onddo
--- In mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>
> At 8:59:53 PM on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, stlatos wrote:
>
> > --- In mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> > <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@> wrote:
>
> >> Does the sequence /kt/ > /tʃ/ due to /kt/ > /xt/ > /çt/ >
> >> /jt/ > /tj/ (suggested by areal dialectology) really
> >> imply palatalization of anteconsonantal *velar* /n/?
>
> > The oddity of KC in Romance is easily seen in Rum. kt > pt
> > , ks > ps (octo: > opt , coxa > coapsA);
>
> A sequence /kt/ > /xt/ > /φt/ > /pt/ (and similarly for /ks/
> is plausible and not especially odd.
>
Then why Nn > mn ?
In Spanish, you have several outcomes for <nn> and <nm>, depending on when the word entered the language from Latin: /ñ/, /NGn/, /nn/, /n/ and rarely, I'm told, in Yucatan due to Yukatekan substrate /m/, /mm/ (where final Spanish <n> is realized as /m/, but I've never come across /mn/ except in Greek names and terms in the language
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