Re: Satem and desatemisation (was: Albanian (1))

> >
> > I won't hurt your national pride, but I am a native speaker of a
> > language that turned around and depalatalized kj and gj.
>
> Looking at the phylogeny in Gray & Atkinson, I wonder if it is
> plausible that Western IE (Celtic, Italic and Germanic)
> is 'desatemised Satem'? However, the position of Greek and

Armenian

> still remains anomalous.
>

As another speaker of that language having channels on cable TV
speaking languages that didn't, I sometimes wonder if not PIE
paradigms might have alternating palatalised and non-palatalised
allophones, eg. k^/k, from which the daughter languages generalised
(also Beekes mentions this).

Torsten