User:Frigoris/Consonantal changes

Sound changes from Indo./Iranian/Toch. languages into Chinese, possibly reflecting underlying Prakrit/Toch./otherwise IE languages.


 * tr before e/i -> l ~ r
 * in ~ 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬
 * in =  ~ 🇨🇬, but this is fairly expected from Skt. too: tr -> t.l
 * ~ 🇨🇬: not into *mVt-rVk, but *mV-trVk > mV-lVk


 * d/dv before i (and e?) -> l
 * ~ 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; from, see 🇨🇬
 * Cf. ḍ -> ḷ -> l, as in ~ 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬
 * d ~ l alternation so "natural", the Sogdians uses the lamedh letter for /θ, ð/


 * ś ~ s -> y (IPA ) before/with -k-/-g-
 * As in Ashoka's name, ~ 🇨🇬, component from 🇨🇬
 * ~ 🇨🇬, possibly reflecting underlying Prakrit/intermediate lang. -k(a) (attributive? "made of cotton", see vrddhied ) or °sakī for feminine
 * in ~ BHS 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; in the masculine: 🇨🇬; 🇨🇬 sometimes with cauda combined to s, ,


 * v/b/p -> ɦ, ɦʷ, ɦu, like, a jump from labial to glottal, possibly reflecting the weakening of the ɦ- initial in Chinese
 * in ~ 🇨🇬
 * in ; the Indo. form was kanavīra-, 🇨🇬 ~ BHS 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Also,  ~ 🇨🇬
 * Conversely, ~ 🇨🇬
 * in ; the Indo. form was kanavīra-, 🇨🇬 ~ BHS 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Also,  ~ 🇨🇬
 * Conversely, ~ 🇨🇬