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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
> Pt 2 :
> As regards YueZhi :
> another name is RouZhi < *njaw- instead of *ngjaw.
Now, Tocharian does have initial /ñ/, and in inherited words to boot:
Tocharian A and B _ñu_ 'nine' and A _ñom_ B _ñem_ 'name'.
FWIW, there's a Proto-Tibetan-Burmese reconstruction *g-nis for 'two',
and the Chinese reflexes include platal and velar nasals. Tocharian
does have words in kn-, e.g. _kna:_ 'know'.
Richard.