Re: [tied] Illyrian as satem

> It is a wide discution if the Latin diphtong /ae/ was pronounced in fact
> /ai/ or not.

No it's not. We know the final vowel was lowered around the 2nd century BC.

> Which are in fact the arguments the Latin /ae/ was /ae/ and not /ai/?

- changes in spelling in inscriptions
- Descriptions by grammarians, e.g. Quintilian
- Terentius Scaurus specifically comments on the end point of the diphthong
being (in his time) -e not -i.

Peter