[tied] Re: kentum and satem

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:

> That's OK but "depalatalization" is just possible in slight

palatalization k^>k. If k^ palatalizes to c^ or s^, revertion is
virtually impossible, isn't it?

> So, I think "kentum wave" must have been very old.
>
> Joao SL

Some Danish dialects went g > dj, k > c^ (the ones still having it
are Bornholmsk and Vendsysselsk, at opposite ends of the country
furthest from Copenhagen and originally German influence); they are
now depalatalizing.

Torsten