From: mkapovic@...
Message: 37482
Date: 2005-05-01
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "David Rönnqvist"Not really the *only* one. There's also Armenian in front of front vowels
> <djwebb2002@...> wrote:
>> having googled (and gurgled!) for a while, I notice Albanian is
> often
>> said to be possibly neither centum nor satem. Can anyone shed any
>> light on this?
>
> The usual ground is that Albanian is unique among the satem
> languages in preserving distinct phonemes for the three PIE
> velar stops k, k', and kW, at least before front vowels. All
> other satem languages merge k and kW. In fact, centum languages
> merge k and k', so that, if true, Albanian is the ONLY surviving
> IE language that distinguishes the original three velar stops.