Re: Ruki rule, retroflexion and palatalization (was Re: Help Weird Up My Orthography, Sound Changes?)

> AFAIK, the ruki rule in Indo-Aryan involves an intermediate step of
> palatalization.  The ruki rule itself applies not only to Indo-Aryan,
> but also to Balto-Slavic and Iranian.  Both groups don't have
> retroflexes, which in Indo-Aryan are probably due to a Dravidian
> substratum.  The change /S/ > /s`/ happens easily.
Yeah, that's not overly surprising. Ruki certainly looks like a
palatisation pattern.

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Shreyas Sampat
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