Re: Another Essentialist Explanation: PIE
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 3, 2002, 20:26 |
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En réponse à Joe Hill <joe@...>:
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> Sorry...showing linguistic ignorance...I was thinking of Modern Greek,
> in
> which I think it's /T/.
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Yep! Indeed, later Greek fricativised all its aspirated stops. So theta /t_h/
became /T/, phi /p_h/ became /f/ (through a /P/ stage maybe) and chi /k_h/
became /x/.
Christophe.
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