Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about

At 22:05 2000-12-04 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
>In ancient Greek geminate voiced plosives are not found, with the exception
>of /dd/ in some dialects where others use zeta.  But the /dd/ pronunciation
>was unstable and by the time of the Hellenistic Koine we can be pretty sure
>that /zz/ was the normal pronunciation.
Is it not possible that in those dialects which had {dd} for {z} both {dd}
and {tt} still represented palatals?




/BP 8^)>
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