Re: beyond langauges

From: jouppe
Message: 58385
Date: 2008-05-05

Did not PIE itself have an instrumental suffix *-tlo like in <needle>
< *neh1(i)-tlo- ?
Its a pity we don't know how this sequence was realized. Maybe an
allophonically voiceless lateral here as well as in Icelandic today?
Also in Tlingit the lateral is voiceless.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
>
> --- jouppe <jouppe@...> wrote:
>
> > Here is a nice link:
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlingit_language#phonology
> > Three kinds of /tl/ phonemes (unmarked, aspirated
> > and ejective), all
> > three phonemes seems to be voiceless affricates.
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"
> > <dmilt1896@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> > <gabaroo6958@>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Spanish tlanguis "public market," also in the
> > form
> > > > tianguis
>
> > > Not sure a word borrowed from Nahuatl counts.
> And the TI- spelling (and pronunciation?)seems to
> vastly outnumber TL-.
>
> True but it's still out there and Mexicans have no
> problems pronouncing /tl/ in place names such as
> Tlaquepaque and Tlatelolco. I'm sure that in Mexican
> Spanish there must be other /tl-/ words.
>
>
>
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