From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 39826
Date: 2005-08-30
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From: "squilluncus" <grvs@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:42 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Origin of Thematic Neuter -om (was: 1sg. -o:)
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Fully voiced is close to nasal, isn't it?
> >
> > If you mean that full-voiced /b/ is one step away
> > from /mb/, yes. This has to do with voicing onset.
> > If the voicing onset starts to *precede* the stop,
> > a nasal corresponding to the stop starts to
> > crystalize. So a full-voiced /d/ could theoretically
> > go to /nd/.
>
> /mb/, /nd/, /ng/ is frequent in languages of Africa (Mbeki, Nkruma
> etc.).
> Have nostraticists and other extra-IE linguists considered this as a
> feasable link to IE aspirated stops in other language groups?
>
> Lars
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Patrick:
I have not yet done a comparison study with an African proto-language but,
in assessing its feasibility, I did do a cursory survey at one time. It
appeared to me then that connecting these pre-nasalized stops with PIE
aspirates, voiced and voiceless, seemed promising.
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