Re: Basque onddo

--- "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

> --- <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@> wrote:
>> --- "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

>>> Actually, this is a *sound law* by which some consonants, e.g. /t,
>>> ts/
>>> get into the corresponding palatals /c, tS/. At the same time, I
>>> warned
>>> you against the confusion with other types of palatalization common
>>> in Romance.

>> How is this Sound Law predictable?

> You can see its "victims" are velar stops.

This makes no sense. Are the 'victims' the starting point or the outcome? Also, you seem to be saying that the sound law applies if it applies. Would you care to rephrase this coherently?

Richard.