r and s

[H.M.Hubey]

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:
>
> "H. M. Hubey" <hubeyh at Montclair.edu> wrote:
>
> >Neither Turkic nor Dravidian have words beginning with the liquids.
>
> I don't think initial position was mentioned previously (and I
> believe the Turkic z ~ r alternations occur everywhere but
> initially).
 
The initial r and l are treated almost as if they were consonant
clusters, except in Turkish into which they have settled.
 
> As to r-, it is also practically absent from, say, IE and Basque in
> the West.  You may have a case for l- (not extremely common in IE or
> Basque, but hardly absent), but note the "compensatory" paucity of
> initial n- in the West (both in IE and Basque [also Kartvelian?]).
 
Lahovary has a huge list of words re: Basque, Etruscan, Sumerian,
Caucasian languages, Nilo-Saharan and AA and IE. He is making a good
case for a related set of languages being spread around the
Mediterranean
thru India (Dravidian). I had noticed some of these strange things
but Lahovary has done a much better job. It is now easier to find links
amongst Dravidian, Turkic and Sumerian (and probably Basque) because of
that. Chuvash seems to figure more prominently than the other Turkic
languages. At least that is my present pre-impression.
 
 
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv at wxs.nl
> Amsterdam
 
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Best Regards,
Mark
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