Re: [tied] How to prepare **udon soup (was: PIE rhotacism)

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 11399
Date: 2001-11-22

>>1. MIE vowel system (c5500 BCE)
>>-------------------------------------------------
>> (*i) (*u)
>> *@
>> *a
>
>What do the brackets mean?

It means that *i and *u do not exist as distinct vocalic phonemes,
only used as consonants or in diphthongs *ei, *ai, *eu and *au.
So, it is a centralized two-vowel system.

>>4. Laryngeal-coloured allophone *A develops
>> from *e
>>-------------------------------------------------
>> *i *u
>> *e
>> *A
>> *a
>
>What does A mean? /�/?

Yes. A lowered or coloured version of *e.


- love gLeN


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