Re: [tied] Re: Slavic peoples and places

From: petegray
Message: 7660
Date: 2001-06-16

>Interestingly, English seems to be the sole IE language to have preserved
>the "original" PIE pronunciation of *w in prevocalic positions.

... the sole surviving language ...

Latin and some dialects of Greek also preserved it.
But I guess that's what you meant.

Peter

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