Re: The personal pronouns of PIE (and other families) are loans

> And if it's a universal tendency, how come people are
> only 'mundfaul' north of the Weisswurstäquator and not in the former
> Celtic areas?

What do you mean? (Since there are various forms that have been
preserved north of the white sausage "border" (or at least north of the
Cologne-Berlin-Koenigsberg/Kaliningrad line; where one says at least
<ik>, in contrast with the mere <i> of the Bavarians/Austrians, e.g. <I
mog nimma, i konn nimma, i wui nimma> :-))

> Torsten

George