Alb. "z" ( it was Re: [tied] Re: Latin pinso etc.)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> .
> >> Then the /z/ in Modern Albanian must be old , at least as old as

in

> >> Rom. The last question here should be interesting for Abdullah.

Are

> > there in
> >> Albanians archaic & regional forms of the words which have

variants

> >> of "z" as "z^" or "gj-"?
> >>
> >> Alex
> > ************
> > Dear Alex,
> > I am sorry, but I am not aware about such variants: "z" as "zh"
> > or "gj-" - at least in historic times.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Konushevci
>
> That is bad for Piotr assumtion. There is not "must" that there

should

> have survived traces of "z" or "z^" for the words which actually
> presents an "gj-".
> I guess it is correct to ask now if for Albanian "gj-" there are

archaic

> /regional forms with "sh-" instead of "gj-"
>
> Alex

************
I am not dialectologist and I can't say for sure that such phenomenon
exists or not. But, as far as I know, I am not aware of such change
of sh- > gj-.

Konushevci