Antedating of "Phoneme"

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> And Germanic.


True, but it's funny-haha in B-S:

IE long a and short o > Baltic a and Slavic o
IE long o and short a > Slavic o and Baltic a

*Very* roughly speaking, the devil being in the details, as usual. WRT
language, of course...

Youneverknow.


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