(18-02-2026, 12:43 AM)Jorge_Stolfi wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.That would change the spelling of a large number of words, but many words would not be affected. And the frequency of "ch" would drop, but not to zero. And some words with "c" and/or with "h" would not be affected...
I see what you mean and can relate from personal experience. There are too letters in Serbian, ћ and ч: both sound very similar to "tch" to me. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
If someone pointed out to me in the middle of attempting to write phonetically a Serbian text that they are different then I would maybe start writing some of them as "che" instead of "ch" which would transform some "chd" to "ched". However this is an hypothetical and unlikely scenario that happened maybe once in a million manuscripts.
One partial transition does not explain everything, the problem is not just "ed", there are many other unexplained statistical gaps and drifts. Maybe many "chol" were replaced by "qol" in language B. Maybe the scribe was suddenly deaf in Q13 to the sound that "eod" makes. Maybe...