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LAURENT SAGART

SC: /0-/- KHW: /w-/:

wuy1

wungl

#wung4 wungl

SC: /h-/- KHW: /f-/:

開 fuy1

*fung2

漢 fung1

fung1

if fung4

SC: /k-/- KHW: /kw-/:

'want' 'peace'

'river bank' 'case, file'

'open' 'cold'

*the Han nation' 'drought'

'sweat'

kwungl #kwuk3

'pole' 'cut'

k'oil 'to cover' may be a loan reading.

This change did not result in widespread homophony be- tween the original words in /-uy, -ung, -uk/ and the newly created words in /-uy, -ung, -uk/ because the former did not combine with the kw- type initials, while the latter combine only with them: KHW contrasts Akung1 'grandfather' with kwung1 'pole', a phonetic contrast unknown to SC. Cases of homophony arose only when the unpermissible sequence *hw- was converted to /f-/, thus causing B *hwuy1 'open' to become homophonous with fuy1 'ash', and *hwung1 the Han nation' with ♬ fung1 'wind'. Note that only *hw- was changed to /f-/, as the original /hu-/ sequences remained unchanged: 34 hung1 'chest'; hung2 'red'; #hung2 'hero'.

3. Finals, phonological structure.

Most KHW finals are homophonous, or roughly homophon- ous, with SC finals. In the following chart of KHW finals, a KHW final is followed by its SC homophone, if there exists one, in the MW transcription. SC finals are placed between brackets (note that SC finals are given only to illustrate the phonetic value of KHW finals: the fact that a KHW final has a homophonous SC final does not imply that a KHW word with this final has the homophonous final in SC):

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