> But all other Indo-European languages changed the
> sound /w/ in initial position.
That's a bold absolute, dontchathink? Beware of
absolute statements off the cuff.
To add to the ante, I am certain that my grandmother
pronounced "w-" as /w/ when she spoke Swedish, not
/v/. I don't know whether this is because that was
the thing to do if you were a Minnesota Swede or
whether she picked up this habit from her own parents
who migrated to the US from Stockholm around 1900.
= gLeN
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