Re: Non-IE elements in Scandinavian

From: Mark Odegard
Message: 3846
Date: 2000-09-18

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

If you applied the same logic to the development of English, you
would have to conclude that SE England was once inhabited by pre-
English aboriginal people who were unable to pronounce final and
preconsonantal /r/'s and who had no /h/ in their phonemic inventory.
It seems they also vocalised their /l/'s in certain environments, and
furthermore, as they were evidently fond of producing glottal stops,
their language must have had a series of ejective consonants.
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Nice one, Piotr.