Abstract
The voiced and voiceless affricates of Welsh were borrowed from English. Gradually, the voiced affricate became the soft mutation form of the underlying voiceless affricate within the morphophonemic system of initial mutation. In at least one dialect, this palato-alveolar order has expanded to produce a voiceless (aspirated) nasal affricate and a voiced nasal affricate to supply nasal mutation forms for the new affricates. This development offers several theoretical insights into the nature of linguistic borrowing, especially when the sounds borrowed cause a readjustment of morphophonemic system within the native language. It also sheds more light on ‘coexistent phonemic systems’.
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