Re: [tied] Re: language shift ( it was Celts & Cimmerians)

> >However, the flood of mere loanwords can induce phonological
> >changes.
> Even English has nasal vowels amongst those who choose to incorporate
> them into their native speech. Things like "double entendre" or "genre".

This is certainly true of French loanwords into German (eg "Restaurant")
where the standard German pronunciation includes nasal vowels for those
words only.

Peter