Re: voiced aspirates [was: Ligurian]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy > > Tavi:

> > However, I disagree with the traditional reconstruction of series III as "voiced aspirated", which only exist in Indic. To me they were plain voiced *b,*d,*g, which is their outcome in most IE languages. However, in Greek and Italic they shifted to voiceless aspirated *pH,*tH,*kH which later became voiceless fricatives. As this shift also happened in Etruscan, we can explain it as a result of language contact.

There's no need to appeal to language contact. b>pH (and ?b > b) is well known from Siamese and Lao.

Richard.