PIE e/o Ablaut

Stefan Georg Georg at home.ivm.de
Thu Apr 6 09:55:23 UTC 2000


>> However, the Pashto vowel system is not *exactly* like the Sanskrit one, in
>> that it contains a phonemic schwa (which may be the short counterpart of
>> e:), which I overlooked, so for the parallel you were looking for, a
>> different language presents itself: Balochi

> [PR]

>Shamefully, I have misplaced my Balochi library.

>Could you share with us a bit on this?

What do you want me to share ? A concise grammar of Balochi ? Since it is
an Indo-European language it would be bad manners to teach the essentials
of this trade on a list like this ;-)

The issue at issue is the number and nature of vowel phonemes present in
the language. It is identical to that of Sanskrit: a, i, i, a:, i:, u:, e,
o (the latter two inherently long).

As far as I remember you categorically denied the possibility that such a
system could exist. Now, it does, which removes every further claim you are
building or trying to build on this unsubstantiated claim.
As always ;-)

St.

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