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Conlangery #51: Language History

Conlangery Podcast

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Semantic Drift Can Take Weird and Surprising Roots

In some dialects of Spanish, the Z and the C before an E is pronounced like an S. So if there were a sound change that happened to all of the S sounds, would it only happen those dialects to apply to the Z and C because in Spain, they don't have the Z andC being pronounced as an S? " semantic drift can take weird and surprising roots," he says.

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