Re: /S/ /Z/ /tS/ etc.
- From: "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx" <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 4 Sep 2006 08:26:29 -0700
Jim Heckman wrote:
On 3-Sep-2006, "ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx" <ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <1157314715.378671.200130@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Jim Heckman wrote:
On 31-Aug-2006, bogus61847688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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<1157093028.632330.273710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the Slavic palatalizations. From
Bernard Comrie's chapter "Slavonic Languages" in his (ed.) _The
World's Major Languages_:
"Two main sets of sound changes separate Proto-Indo-European from
Common Slavonic. [...] The second major set of sound changes is a
series of palatalisations. By the first palatalisation, */g/, */k/,
*/x/ become, respectively, /Z/, /tS/, /S/ before original front
vowels,
Are any examples given? I'm particularly interested in examples of
*/x/->/S/, preferably examples with Sanskrit cognates.
Sorry, the only example given for the first palatalization is Old
Church Slavonic /ZivU/ vs. Lithuanian /gývas/. (I'm using <U> here
for the back "jer", the reduced vowel from PIE */u/.)
Perhaps it wasn't entirely reduced in OCS, given that the designers of
an alphabet for the language seem to have felt the need for a separate
letter for the sound.
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ocslavonic.htm
The reduction seems similar to the case where a Tamil-Malayalam
terminal [u] is reduced to a ramshorn in Malayalam, with the Malayalam
script having a grapheme to distinguish it from /u/ & /a/ (/a/ has
allophones [E],[a],[a"],[@],[V]).
The only Sanskrit comparison I see in the chapter is an
illustration of the back jer, OCS /snUxa/ 'daughter-in-law' vs.
Skt. /snus.á:/.
Most gratifying; thank you very much.
.
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