Marc V:
>>There was no *pw. There can't be any *pw sound. The sound *p is
>>inheirantly labial to begin with! How does one honestly distinguish >>*p
>>and *pW? Any examples of this in a HUMAN language?
>
>What about French pois & pas?
You're right. I was drunk when I stated that... I speak the language and yet
it didn't dawn on me. Still, I think Miguel's version of pre-IE is absurd. I
mean he basically has every phoneme turning into every other phoneme and who
even knows what time period he has in mind. *ty becomes *y but *ky becomes
*H1 while *kw becomes *H3... etc, etc, etc, ad absurdum.
- gLeN
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