Re: [tied] Re: Sanskrit and e, a, o

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:18 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Sanskrit and e, a, o

... if only prof. Misra would admit of an earlier stage of Sanskrit where some a's were pronounced as more close than the rest, European linguists would have to take him more
seriously.

That earlier stage can be identified with early Proto-Indo-Iranian (the contrast between back and front "a" must have existed at the time the IIr. velar palatalisations took place), and is not so much an earlier stage of Sanskrit as a form of pre-Sanskrit (and pre-Avestan, pre-Old Persian, pre-Nuristani, etc.). The whole problem with Prof. M. is that he refuses to see the obvious.

 

Piotr