Hello,
> Very interesting. It appears that Proto-Latin or Proto-Italic had a
> complicated vowel-change scheme which depended heavily on the
> following consonant.
Quite correct. Another factor was the openness-closedness of the
syllable AFAIR.
> All the above changes could be explained by
> having all short
> vowels in medial (unstressed, since Proto-Italic apparently
> had a regular
> word-intial accent) syllables reduce to schwa /&/.
/@/, actually. But yes, they did collapse.
> However, what is 'dark /l/'?
Velarized - /5/ in X-SAMPA
Pavel
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