4. “COGNATES”
Comparative
reconstruction
The majority The most natural
development
principle principle
1)Final vowels often • Mube
The disapear eg: • Mupe *(stream)
[K] original • mup
sound
2) Unvoiced • Abadi: b=voiced
consonants become • Apati : p=unvoiced
voiced between
vowels eg: • Apat : p=unvoiced
The original
sound
[s] *(rock)
•Cantare [k]-stop
*(horse) 3) Stops become •Cantar [k] =original
fricatives eg: sound *(sing)
•Chanter[s]=fricative
5. Primary sources:
Germanic language
spoken by: VIKINGS
LATIN Old norse
Were
converted
Anglo saxons christinity
and Jutes
Basics terms in our
language as:
Basic terms in -give
our language -low
as: -leg
-sky
-mann (man)
-wif (woman)
-child (child)
6. Anglo Norman
Norman Culture
Conquest 1066
French, the language for the
upper classes for 200 years
7. .
Vowel
sounds Disappeared
have sounds
Metathesis Epenthesis Prothesis Syntactic change
undergone
•Old •Old •Old •Old •Old •Old English / Modern English
English: English: English: English: English: Frde he / he traveled
/hu:s/ night [nixt] Frist Aemtig Schola
Verbo sujeto sujeto verbo
•Modern •Modern •Modern •Modern •Modern
English: english: English: english Lexical changes
english:
/haus/ Night First Empty
[nait] Escuela
*/u://au/ Breadening narrowing
*[x]-> has
disappeared •O.E / M.E • O.E / M.E
Holy day-> Holiday Hund-> hound
8.
9. Diachronically Synchronicaly
•Historical •Differences within
perspective of one language in
change through different places and
time. different groups at
the same time.
