Re: [romanceconlang] Question on Italic languages

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 20:59:03 EST

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BP Jonsson scripsit:

> Actually there are Germanic dialects where *hw > f!

Aberdeenshire Scots, notably.

When my father (who was bidialectal in Fuluffyan and Irish-American)
wanted to be silly, he would say /&n"fwVtIz"pT&t/ (rising intonation).

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