PIE e/o Ablaut

[proto-language]

Dear Stefan and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Georg" <Georg at home.ivm.de>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:55 AM

[SG]

The issue at issue is the number and nature of vowel phonemes present in
the ("Balochi"; in English, Baluchi) 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.

[PR]

There is more than one claim that has been made. One of which is that no
language has /o:/ and /e:/ without a corresponding /o/ and /e/ unless /o:/
is derived from /au/ and /e:/ is derived from /ai/.

This does not necessarily have to be synchronous. In Baluchi, it is obvious
that /o:/ and /e:/ ultimately originated in an early Sanskrit /au/ and /ai/,
is it not?

 Pat

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at ek hekk, vindga meipi, nftr allar nmu, geiri undapr . . . a ~eim meipi er
mangi veit hvers hann af rstum renn." (Havamal 138)