Proto-Ketan: Difference between revisions

Then there was a western-eastern split: western dialects kept *q and *k separate, strengthen *j to *ś (probably a voiced [ʝ] at first, that later devoiced), while the eastern ones merged both as *k, elide *j word-medially and keep *b as /f/. Then some languages from both groups (most dialects of Old Virjales and Western Kventanes) had independently changed *kʷ to *p in all positions, while other dialects merged it with *k. Here are some reflexes of the word "neck" as an example (in Old Kventtanes the stress shifted to the prefix, thus preserving the original vowel, in Phomˀald unstressed initial vowels are always preserved as [ə]):

|'''Virjale'''