Re: The pronunciation of post-velars (was Re: [tied] *kW- "?")

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 40276
Date: 2005-09-21

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:41:12 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>How come so many PIE *ka-, *k^a- survive in Bangani?
>
>http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/bangani.abbi2.html


Because, controversy aside, that's the only characteristic
of "pre-Bangani" identified to date: its centum reflexes of
*k^-.

It's like asking, if Scandinavian languages had died out,
and nothing was known of them except for traces left in
English, why so many Scandinavian words start with sk-.

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