Re: Other IE language with /w/

From: tgpedersen
Message: 41463
Date: 2005-10-17

> There are a number of pockets on the Holland coast (Katwijk,
> Noordwijk, Egmond-aan-Zee, Zandvoort), where the
> pronunciation is labiovelar [w].
>

Jysk (which also has /w/) seems to hold out the longest in the
language of fishermen, for whatever reason. The remainder of some old
coast culture (and the values that it comprises)?


Torsten

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