From: BP Jonsson (bpj@melroch.net)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 20:43:32 EST
At 13:44 28.4.2003 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> > What is it with these P-Other voiceless stop splits.
> > They are way-cool, but wy is it always P that gets to
> > have all the fun. No fair to the other stops. :)
Because Indo-European had a series of doubly-articulated stops.
Usually labiovelar (type [pk]), but sometimes denti-velar, (type [tk])
if Greek is anything to go by.
>Hehe. I am starting to think that it is time for someone to create a
>P-Germanic
>language :) .
Noli inducas nos in tentatione! :-)
Actually there are Germanic dialects where *hw > f!
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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