Re: The Turkic Languages in a Nutshell

On Jun 30, 3:28 pm, Christopher Culver
<crcul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The shift p > f > h is extremely common crosslinguistically, with
examples ranging from Greek to Spanish to Japanese.

We could also add Irish. The grammatical procedure called lenition in
Irish grammar entails the elision of f-, which is why fh- is in Irish
a mute placeholder. However, modern spoken Irish exhibits another kind
of "f lenition", which occurs in unstressed grammatical particles, and
this is exactly the f > h shift. "Sinn féin", for instance, is
commonly pronounced "sinn héin" in Connemara.
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