Talk:Anglo-Frisian nasal spirant law

Dutch is not consistently outside the domain. zacht DOES show its effect, there is no sound law of [mf] > [x] in Dutch, but there is [ft] > [xt] (cf. lucht "air"). Also vijf "five" has lost a nasal before a fricative (cf. German fünf). It seems that some words in modern standard Dutch come from dialects with the nasal-spirant law, and other words come from dialects without it. --Angr/undefined 11:53, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Good point. I am sure you are right.  I have corrected zacht and added vijf.  I've also added a very inadequate sentence about Dutch being inconsistent.  It would be good to be a bit more precise about the boundaries there.  I'm also a little unclear about how far Old Saxon follows the rule, though Plattdeutsch doesn't?  Can you formulate this suitably, Angr, and put it into the article?  --Doric Loon 16:42, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)