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From: Hubey
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 19:40
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 19:40
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In article <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au> jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy) writes: > hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) writes: > > Strange. I know of at least one case of change in the other > direction (l --> sh), and that is in Picard, the French >..... > --> 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? It's quite possible. Of course, if we use the same methodology as used for finding the homeland of the IE languages, then the Turkic languuage homeland moves northwest from Altay region towards the Ural-Siberian region. That puts it towards the Uralic homeland, doesn`t it ? -- mark hubey@amiga.montclair.edu hubey@apollo.montclair.edu hubey@pilot.njin.net ...!rutgers!pilot!hubey
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!pilot.njin.net!hubey From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Bulgarians - descendents of a Finn... Message-ID: <Jan.4.14.40.42.1993.18485@pilot.njin.net> Date: 4 Jan 93 19:40:42 GMT References: <1993Jan3.164904.6398@desire.wright.edu> <Jan.3.19.08.23.1993.201@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan4.032130.12753@trl.oz.au> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 25