• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Funny part is, the same shift happened in a lot of languages. I think some more obvious examples are modern German and Polish, where letter W corresponds to the V sound. Although I believe that the shift happened in German and then Polish borrowed the letter with the new pronunciation.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      in swedish i think we’ve just gone from “fv” to “v”, somehow

      very common example since it’s in old surnames: hufvud > huvud