Re: PIE voiced aspirates (?)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58924
Date: 2008-05-29

--- P&G <G.and.P@...> wrote:

> > So could /w/ > /v/ in Latin have
> >originated under Etruscan influence?
>
> Latin written /v/ is of course pronounced either as
> /u/ or as a light /w/.
> There is no /v/.
>
> Peter

I'm talking about /v/ that developed in Vulgar Latin
--as seen in all the Romance languages and also in
Medieval Latin (e.g. Church Latin).

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