Re: Pronunciation of "r" - again?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ehlsmith" <ehlsmith@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> wrote:......
> > david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:

Also for example, most Indo-European languages changed

> initial /w/ to /v/. One changed it to /b/, one to /gw/, and in one

it

> disappeared. But all other Indo-European languages changed the
> sound /w/ in initial position.

As discussed before with Torsten, many dialects, mainly around
Kattegat and Skagerak (intermediaries of the North Sea and the
Baltic), have W in initial position.
Not as far north as the Oslo-fiord. Otherwise we would have spoken
about Wikings.

Lars