From: tgpedersen
Message: 56205
Date: 2008-03-29
>No, what you want to do is present an example which can't have been
> At 11:25:43 AM on Saturday, March 29, 2008, Miguel
> Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Sounds shifts can and have spread across dialects, and
> > even across completely different languages (the cause
> > célèbre being the spread of uvular [R] across large parts
> > of Europe).
>
> Or preaspiration spreading from Scand. to Sc.Gael. and
> Saami.
>