Re: Basque onddo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

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> From: stlatos <sean@...>
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 6:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Basque onddo
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> --- In mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@> wrote:
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> > At 8:59:53 PM on Tuesday, October 30, 2012, stlatos wrote:
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> > > --- In mailto:cybalist%40yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> > > <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@> wrote:
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> > >> Does the sequence /kt/ > /tÊÆ'/ due to /kt/ > /xt/ > /çt/ >
> > >> /jt/ > /tj/ (suggested by areal dialectology) really
> > >> imply palatalization of anteconsonantal *velar* /n/?
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> > > The oddity of KC in Romance is easily seen in Rum. kt > pt
> > > , ks > ps (octo: > opt , coxa > coapsA);
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> > A sequence /kt/ > /xt/ > /φt/ > /pt/ (and similarly for /ks/
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> 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

I replied to kt > pt. I'm talking about Nn>mn in Rumanian.