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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:
> Tee-hee, as I have said a number of time already, Sanskrit *is*
> monovocalic
Just as all Indo-Iranian languages.
in exactly the sense of the most extremist view of PIE. That,
> however, does not force PIE to be so also.
>
> Jens
But Jens, how will you account for the /i/ and /u/ in Sanskrit?
By the way, the idea about babies. The big /a/ is the beginning
of the big noise :-) But then you get to hear /i/ (usually dididi), /u/
(typically gugugu)and /e/ (nenene, hehe, but this could be just
the Bulgarian influence). Interesting, I do not think I have heard
an /o/.
Ideas?
Eva