Interversion (linguistics)

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Interversion is the apparently arbitrary swapping of the order of sounds (pivoting) when a loan word is adopted from another language.

The German term Konsonantenumstellung is limited to consonants , while the interversion can generally also include vowels or combinations of phonemes . Interversion is a subtype of metathesis , a phonological change in the sound sequence.

Example: Spanish bacalao → German cod

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juliette Blevins et al. Andrew Garrett: The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis. In: Language , Vol. 74, No. 3, 1998, pp. 508-556.