Old Basque had */χ/, not /h/

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Journal of Historical Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-09-14 DOI:10.1075/jhl.19041.man

Julen Manterola, J. Hualde

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Abstract

The sound change from Latin /f/ to Old Spanish and Gascon /h/ has often been attributed to stratal influence from Basque. The motivation would be that Old Basque lacked /f/, and instead had a phoneme /h/, with which bilingual speakers replaced it when speaking in Romance. However, this hypothesis presents several difficulties. Most importantly, Navarrese Romance preserves Latin /f/, and in Basque itself, /f/ is adapted as /b/ in loanwords from Latin and Romance, not as /h/. Here we will argue that Old Basque had neither /f/ nor /h/. Instead, modern Basque /h/ derives from older */χ/. Medieval data will play an important role in establishing this. This hypothesis explains a number of morphophonological alternations, as well as some puzzling aspects in the treatment of aspiration in Romance borrowings, and it also makes it more difficult to hold to the stratal hypothesis for the Romance change /f/ > /h/.

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老巴斯克语有*/χ/，没有/h/

从拉丁语/f/到古西班牙语和加斯科尼语/h/的发音变化通常被认为是受巴斯克语的影响。动机可能是古巴斯克语缺少/f/，而有一个音素/h/，双语者在说罗曼语时用它来代替。然而，这一假设存在一些困难。最重要的是，纳瓦拉罗曼语保留了拉丁语的/f/，而在巴斯克语中，/f/在拉丁语和罗曼语的外来词中被改编为/b/，而不是/h/。这里我们要论证的是，老巴斯克语既没有/f/，也没有/h/。相反，现代巴斯克语/h/源自更古老的*/χ/。中世纪的数据将在确立这一点上发挥重要作用。这一假说解释了许多词形的变化，以及一些令人困惑的方面，在处理愿望在浪漫借用，这也使得更难以坚持层假设的浪漫变化/f/ > /h/。

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