Possible phonological changes (was: Rate of change)

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:59:33 -0700, "R.S.Georg"
<R.S.Georg at let.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:

>>And, if anyone can make any sense of the phonetic side of the change *s > *k
>>mentioned above, I'd be glad to hear it...

>Armenian has a somewhat similar development (although the details are
>by far not as simple; I don't know them from the top of my head, so
>please look it up).

In Armenian, sw > k` (like tw and kw).

>In early European writings on things Indian, I encountered the term
>/upaniSad/ rendered as <Oup'nekhad>  (I think it was in Schopenhauer,
>but he certainly got it from someone else); the ultimate source of
>this impressionistic notation may have been Bengali Brahmin
>pronunciation of Sanskrit, but I'm not so sure about that.

Wasn't it simply French?

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