Re: voiced aspirates [was: Ligurian]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>
> > 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.

>

Anyway, this would be an *areal* isogloss involving the forementioned
languages.