Re: [tied] Other IE language with /w/

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 41391
Date: 2005-10-13



Mate Kapoviæ <mkapovic@...> wrote:


That is also the case in Standard Croatian and in my native ©tokavian
dialect. But Dutch has the opposition of approximant and fricative /v/, we
don't.

-- Okay, now I'm beginning to suspect the truth is that virtually every modern IE language has a dialect or dialects that have preserved initial /w/.  Boy, did I speak too soon.

 

Andrew


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