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find an imperfect pair in my data to exemplify this merger: # tyoyl 'drunk' (SC final /-ui/) vs. ty'oyl ‘vegetable' (SC final /-oi/).

At the same time, not all SC words with final /-oi/ are represented in KHW by words with final /-oy/. In SC all words from the open 1st division of the Xie rhyme-group, both those with guttural and those with non-guttural initials are pronounced /-oi/, but in KHW, those words of this group with guttural initials have moved to merge with another group of words, that is, those words with finals /-ooi/ in SC, and are pronounced /-uy/, as already mentioned above in section 2, in relation to initials. Hence the correspondence:

SC: -oi SC: -ooi

} KHW: -uy

I Bfuyl 'open', wuyl 'want', but also fuyl ‘ash'

If we informally call Old Cantonese (OC) the common ancestor language of SC and KHW, the development of some of the OC finals into KHW on the one hand and into SC on the other hand can be tabulated thus:

KUW Gnal:

OC final:

certain initials

SC final:

KHW final:

+ ci aw

OC final:

HC (K)

(open 1st Div., Xiao th-grp)

(效開一)

* au certain initials

SC final:

00 44

KHW final:

OC final:

+

SC final:

certain initials

(labial. Xie. Zhi l-grps)

(EA11)

gultural initials

ooi 11

*- qi ---000