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West Carpathian had (or has in case of Ränci dialects) a phoneme /θ/ which is still written "th" and can be reconstructed for Proto-Carpathian. Some of these words, like ''kutha'' "edge, border" have doublets with /ɦ/ - ''kuha'' "corner" and thus could be explained as a hypercorrection or an alteration, created in Carpathian languages. But initial "th" actually has three cognates in Alpian, like ''thura'' "river" which corresponds to ''dor'' in Baaye and ''dure'' in Vaand, so Carpathian initial /θ/ corresponds to Alpian initial /d/, while Carpathian /h/ almost always corresponds to zero or /f/ in Alpian, with the exception of consonant clusters with /h/, which would usually correspond to /h/ or /x/ in Alpian. Due to a lack of cognates from Hirtian, more data is needed to explain such correspondences. Some scholars believe, that /θ/ was a phoneme from an unknown substrate language, which entered Alpian and Carpathian with loanwords and thus can not be found in Hirtian, while others claim this phoneme resulted in simplification of unaccented syllables with reduced vowels, which did not happen in Hirtian, and actually propose ''хəсˀур'' (''həsˀur'') "gust, current" to be the cognate. | |||
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