From: Rick McCallister
Message: 47218
Date: 2007-02-03
--- In cybalist@... s.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@ ...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@... s.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
> <cdog_squirrel@ > wrote:
> >
> > I like this idea of prenasalization. The m/w thing seems a nice
> > touch, and your theory has some interesting parts ot it, but I do
> > have a few questions about it.
> > 1) How would the /b/ turn into a /w/ around an /m/? Where would the
> > lip-rounding come from?
The lip-rounding is there in /b/. Lenited /m/ has become [w] in
Irish, so there is no problem there. One example well on the way to
at least apparently developing /mb/ > /w/ is Rennellese. It's got as
far as [B].
> > 3) Do we know of any other languages in the general region of the
> > Urheimat (that is, from Turkey to the Caspian to the Volga, possibly
> > to the Danube near the Black Sea) that might have used
> > prenasalization?
Albanian has clusters of nasal plus stop - they're no more exotic than
'presigmatised stops'.
Richard.
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