Re: NATLANG ruki-rule in Slavic

Hello,

> A question for all you who know Slavic historical phonology:
Well, not exactly, but.

> I know that Slavic is a ruki-language, i.e. there is an early
> shift *s > S > x after any of the sounds *r *u *k *i.
True.

> But what happens if the *s preceded a consonant, and in
> particular *p *t *k.  I suspect we don't get
> xp xt xk in those cases!
In most cases nothing happened AFAIR, i.e. the ruki-rule was blocked.

Of the books I have at home, I can only find a reference in Lashkova,
L., Uvod v sravnitelnata gramatika na slavyanskite ezici. Sofia: EMAS,
2000, who writes on pp. 87-88 (hasty translation from Bulgarian at 11
PM):

'The consonant X - a new phoneme, which arose in Proto-Slavic soil from
the Indo-European consonant -s- in certain conditions [conditions
snipped]. The second condition of satemization [sic!] is that the
consonant must be followed by a vowel. In any case, p, t and k must not
follow the -s-, or else the process will not be executed'

Hope this helps,
Pavel
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