From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 32521
Date: 2004-05-09
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:Romanian.
>
>> For this once: PIE *gh merges with PIE *g everywhere, except
>> in Indo-Aryan (gh ~ g), Greek (kh ~ g), Latin (h ~ g) and in
>> Germanic and Armenian (g ~ k). Since I assume your fantasy
>> "Romanian" does not belong to the aspirating group (not that
>> it matters for palatalization: Indo-Aryan gh palatalizes
>> exactly like Indo-Aryan g), nor to the Grimm-shifted group,
>> it should belong in the majority group (Celtic, Iranian,
>> Balto-Slavic, Albanian, Tocharian, Anatolian) where *g and
>> *gh merged. Therefore, there can be no difference in the
>> palatalization behaviour of *g and *gh.
>
>Well, *are* there any examples deciding whether non-labiovelar *gh
>is palatalized or not in Albanian?