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Re: Mixtecan thread
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2021 10:38 am
by Skookum
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?
Re: Mixtecan thread
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 1:03 am
by vlad
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.