Re: [tied] Animate Dual in -h3 (was: IE Roots)

Me:

>Alright, so you're saying that Kartvelians couldn't pronounce *k
>before *t, is that it?

Miguel:

>No. All that's necessary is for them to have pronounced it differently.

All that's necessary is logical efficiency. What is the basis for this in
Proto-Kartvelian.

>No we don't. We know [IE's labiovelars] had front allophones, otherwise
>there never would have been a satem shift in the first place.

No, we know that some **POST**-IE dialects had front allophones.
We DON'T know that IE itself had front allophones and the phonological
system is awkward if we insist on that view.



= gLeN

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