Re: Phoneme diversity: questions

At 9:46:42 PM on Thursday, November 21, 2013, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> My main question is: how can a phoneme be "added" to a
> lanaguage inventory without being substratal, superstratal
> or adstratal?

Phonemic split.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_change#Split

Brian