Re: [tied] Re: Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE li

01-03-2004 00:15, S.Kalyanaraman wrote:

> Thanks, Piotr for the fascinating analysis.
>
> I can think of one language which merges *a and *o as *a in
> thousands of etyma.
>
> It is Bengali. And, Santali, Assamese to some extent. If we listen
> to a Bengali speaking, it is difficult to find a distinction between
> a and o. In fact the very first alphabet of the language is the
> merged *a

I was thinking of a language in which _PIE_ *a and *o merged as *a. Of
course they did in all of Indo-Iranian, but since they also merged in
Germanic, Balto-Slavic and Albanian, to mention just a few groups
geographically closer to Italic, we have more plausible sources to
choose from.

Piotr