Re: [tied] Re: A New language tree

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From: Richard Wordingham

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:26 AM

Subject: [tied] Re: A New language tree

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@......>
wrote:
> I forgot to recognize the one pont Kazanas made with which I can
agree.
>
> He asserted that Old Indian cerebrals/retroflex consonants were once
a part of PIE.
>
> Actually, I think this very likely although no trace of them exists
outside of India.
>
> I believe the retroflex consonants (apicals) originated as apicals
followed by *o or by *WV in pre-PIE.

Examples?  Any relation to the Pashto retroflex consonants?

Richard.

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Patrick writes:

Frankly, I know not next to nothing but absolutely nothing about Pashto. And I have no references to provide me with that background. They may not exist anyplace at all in Little Rock.

 

I made a few additional remarks on this topic in another posting.

 

I also do not have the reference materials to winnow out Dravidian loans, etc. into Old Indian.

 

I guess the principal reason I think it, at least, possible for PIE at some length is the uneasy marriage Semitic and IE had for a while.

 

I will say that in doing my comparison work, I found Dravidian retroflexes either an indication or a confirmation of Nostratic *o.

 

 

Patrick

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