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THE PHONETJC ELEMENTS OF SUMERJAN AND SOUND-CHANGES 39
Jrequent interchange of r and S excludes tbe species of r known as the
guttural r closely allied to {¡, and points to an alveolar r which is arti­
culated in mucb the same position as s'. The interchange of 1 and r
indicates a cerebral r and ?, but it would be rash to postulate this sound
of r and 1 as the ordinary pronunciation 2.
More frequent is the nasalized l' interchanging with n as in til >tin,
dul> dun or the reverse process in dun > duJ. [LEHMANN, p. 150.]
7. Nasals : labial m, dental n, palatal tí, velar ng. The latter
sound in forms like dungi, dunga (CT.XXV, 48, 10). inga occurs fre­
quently in verb-forms', for an earlier imma. The most plausible
explanation would be to assume a palatalised nasal i,,¿ after the pala tal
vowels i and e. JENSEN has already pro posed this explanation for ki­
bi-gar-ra = ki-bi-in-gar-ra 5, where g is palatalised after i, pronounced
kibiilarra; the same process has occurred in é-gar = ingar (= igaru),
pronounced iliar, as well as in the word for ' farmer', ikkaru, from
ikkar ng after i. The dialectic
dimmer for digir 6>dingir (ditiir) god, and kengir > sumer shew tbe
1. SIEVERS, 301. P;or this ehange, eL dul' > tus = asabu written IEJ.
2. SIEVERS, 321. 1'> l in tu-ul = rabú for dul' = I'abú.
3. SIEVERS, 318.
4. ingetmubdug, CT. XV, 24, 13; inganada, inga-ul'l'i, SBH. 130, 22; ingasir,
BA. V, 533, 3; ingadateg, ASKT. 110, 30; si-in-ga-bul-bul, IV R. 28 a no. 2, 11.
5. ZK. 1I,103, also HOMMELand LEHMANN;V. BRüNNow, no. 9734.
6. digil' was the original pronuneiation, as is proven by the loan-word digil'ü,
K. 2100, IV, 10.