Mixtecan thread

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Skookum
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Oh yeah I see now that theres a palatalized alveolar in the word for "slippery". It seems significant that Proto-Mixtecan plain alveolars go to Proto-Amuzgo velarized ones. Do you have any theory about the origin of the palatalized series?
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vlad
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Skookum wrote: ↑Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:38 am Oh yeah I see now that theres a palatalized alveolar in the word for "slippery". It seems significant that Proto-Mixtecan plain alveolars go to Proto-Amuzgo velarized ones. Do you have any theory about the origin of the palatalized series?
I don't know. Palatalized consonants are less common than velarized ones, and almost all the cognate sets I can find involve velarized consonants.
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