Cross posted from: Latin@lemm.ee

lingua latina pater linguarum dimidum est 😎

I hope it’s okay for me to crosspost here.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    There’s a bunch of guesses on how *h₁ *h₂ and *h₃ were pronounced in this Wikipedia page. They’re usually defined by their effect in child languages though, so it’s possible that some of those were actually multiple sounds.

    For *h₃ you’ll often see values like [ɣʷ] or [ʁʷ]; a labialised consonant (to explain why it often turns nearby vowels into [o] ) and voiced (as there are some claims that it voices nearby consonants, mostly Cowgill’s Law)

    My personal guess for *h₃ is completely heterodox, [ɸ]~[β]. I think that it’s directly associated with *b being so uncommon in PIE.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago
      1. Happy Lemmiversary
      2. I wish we could follow individual users because I could listen to you talk about PIE aitches for the next couple thousand years
      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Thank you! Sadly, I don’t talk too much about PIE in Lemmy because… well, it’s kind of a niche subject that most users don’t care too much about.

        Feel free to ask for further info on stuff, though. I do enjoy talking about it!