From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 30086
Date: 2004-01-27
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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Satem and desatemisation (was: Albanian (1))
> In essence I am not saying your claim is wrong, only that as a bald
> statement it is made to carry more weight than it should bear -
> overwhelmingly the satem languages merge *kW with *k, *gW with *g, and
> (where the aspirates are distinguished) *gWH with *gH.
>But it still means that this merger is an almost universal
> mark of the satem languages.
Luwian has /kw/ for PIE *kw and /z/ for PIE *k' (and /k/ for PIE *k). This
agrees with Albanian.
Mate