Re: Introducing myself to the list

At 23:18 16.6.2000 -0500, Danny Wier wrote:
>>One variant proposed that the ejectives had implosive allophones,
>>explaining why they became b/d/g in many IE langs.
>
>REALLY?!  I was hoping so, and I thought that besides.  The non-ejectives
>have aspirated-unaspirated allophonism, so if the voiceless ejectives become
>voiced implosives, that results in the same six-way stop/affricate system of
>Igbo!  (Incidentally, Sanskrit voiced stops became voiced implosives in
>Sindhi, then borrowed Arabo-Persian words and kept the voiced stops as plain
>voiced.  That's a five-way system, where you have p/ph/b/bh/b'.
Then there is Vennemann's version, which, if I understand it aright, says
that it was the Neogrammarian P-T-K which were ejective, with B-D-G
implosive and Bh-Dh-Gh plain, with voiced and/or aspirated allophones.  In
that case Sindhi suggests that Indo-Aryan kept the old order of things,
except that it introduced a voiced/voiceless aspirates distinction, mainly
by reinterpreting sequences like *tH2 as unit phonemes -- _pathan_ "path"
is the usual example.

This version explains the Germanic sound-shift neatly, as ejectives often
affricatize.  It also makes the IE consonant system and its sandhi
phenomena very similar to modern Korean!



/BP

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