Re: beyond langauges

--- Richard Wordingham <richard@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
>
> [> Patrick Ryan wrote: - RW.]
> >> That has already been done by Bomhard.
>
> > I don't think &h can be a phoneme of PIE
> > and I don't think tl > k makes sense.
>
> So Trubetzkoy's notion that NE Caucasian *tL could
> become /k/, /c/ or
> /q/ is mistaken? For clusters, tl > kl > k makes
> excellent sense.
>
> Richard.
>

In Spanish you had tVl > tl > kl > ky > x, h --vetulus

> betlu > beklu > byekyu > byelyu > byez^o > byexo,

byeho
Italian remained at the vekkyo stage
Portuguese stayed at the belyu stage



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