On the sound change *ld > nd in Tibetic By Dmitry Nikolaev

https://www.academia.edu/81372530/On_the_sound_change_ld_nd_in_Tibetic?nav_from=16b8cf70-3aa2-4a13-be26-1479f7667d6b This short note provides phonetic and phonological arguments in favour of the explanation of the sound change *ld > nd in Tibetic proposed by Sprigg (1972). It is argued that an alternative explanation by Gong (2016), resting on a novel interpretation of the consonant system of Common Central Tibetan, is not supported by the data and has no conceptual advantages.