Re: Alb. "z" ( it was Re: [tied] Re: Latin pinso etc.)

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
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>> Then the /z/ in Modern Albanian must be old , at least as old as in
>> Rom. The last question here should be interesting for Abdullah. Are
> there in
>> Albanians archaic & regional forms of the words which have variants
>> of "z" as "z^" or "gj-"?
>>
>> Alex
> ************
> Dear Alex,
> I am sorry, but I am not aware about such variants: "z" as "zh"
> or "gj-" - at least in historic times.
>
> Regards,
> Konushevci

That is bad for Piotr assumtion. There is not "must" that there should
have survived traces of "z" or "z^" for the words which actually
presents an "gj-".
I guess it is correct to ask now if for Albanian "gj-" there are archaic
/regional forms with "sh-" instead of "gj-"

Alex