Re: [tied] Re: Nominative: A hybrid view

Sanskrit /i:/ and /u:/ are nowhere opposed to /yy/ and /vv/, so if we
call them that, there is only /a/ that MUST be a vowel.

Jens

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
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> > Tee-hee, as I have said a number of time already, Sanskrit *is*
> > monovocalic in exactly the sense of the most extremist view of PIE.
> That,
> > however, does not force PIE to be so also.
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> As Sanskrit has both /i:/ and /u:/, how does it count as monovocalic?
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