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At 13:44 28.4.2003 +0100, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> What is it with these P-Other voiceless stop splits. > They are way-cool, but wy is it always P that gets to > have all the fun. No fair to the other stops. :)
Because Indo-European had a series of doubly-articulated stops. Usually labiovelar (type [pk]), but sometimes denti-velar, (type [tk]) if Greek is anything to go by.
Hehe. I am starting to think that it is time for someone to create a P-Germaniclanguage :) .
Noli inducas nos in tentatione! :-) Actually there are Germanic dialects where *hw > f! / B.Philip Jonsson B^) -- mailto:melrochX@hidden.email (delete X!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No man forgets his original trade: the rights of nations and of kings sink into questions of grammar, if grammarians discuss them. -Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)