Re: Output of l. r. in PAlb and some Early PAlb Depalatisations of

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 38903
Date: 2005-06-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "pielewe" <wrvermeer@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
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> Piotr brought up:
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> > > /gûh/ with a nasal vowel (in some varieties of Geg)
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> Then Marius objected:
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> > I didn't find anywhere else this gûh attested...
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> Sorry for speaking out of turn, but according to Huld, Basic
Albanian
> Etymologies, p. 71 it is attested in the Dushmani dialect as
> described by Cimochowski.
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> W.
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Even I post half hour ago the message where I claim that Marius
demand to be found such form in Arbërishte (Albanian of Italy or
Greek) is not possible, for nasal vowels in such idioms, that belong
to Geg or South dialect didn't exist. Maybe in early stages the
system of nasal vowels was common for both dialects, but nasality
left no traces in Tosk dialect.

Konushevci