Re: Pseudo-cognates - Correction

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 15538
Date: 2002-09-17

--- In cybalist@..., "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> wrote:
> But the change phl > ph is
> common South-West Tai (sic) - 1st millenium AD or earlier,

No, it isn't common South-West Tai! Ahom (a dead language of Assam)
preserves /phl/ as /phr/. I still reckon the change was 13th AD or
earlier in Siamese, but this is now an argument from silence.

Richard.