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In article <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au>, jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes:
|> ... That change seems
|> natural enough: from lateral to lateral fricative, then
|> devoiced. Z to r is also strange; once again, it's usually
|> the other way around as far as I know, e.g. French chaire
|> --> chaise, and, if memory serves, Latin r --> s.
|> Off-hand, I can't think of cases of a regular change of
|> sh into l, or of z into r. Could it be that it is Chuvash
|> that has been the conservative one, phonologically?
I know of several other instances of l or r to s or sh (or voiced equivalents),
and I'd tend to agree with Guy that it seems more likely that the Chuvash
phonology was original.  However, I don't recall how Altaicists treat this
correspondence.
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