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From: mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer)
Subject: Re: What are Scythians?
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References: <hubey.785762308@pegasus.montclair.edu> <hubey.785872580@pegasus.montclair.edu> <3b8ih7$bsf@gordon.enea.se> <3bd0gd$4qb@ss1.cam.nist.gov>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 23:50:01 GMT
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In article <3bd0gd$4qb@ss1.cam.nist.gov>,
John E Koontz <koontz@cam.nist.gov> wrote:
>In article <3b8ih7$bsf@gordon.enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>|> H. M. Hubey (hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu) writes:
>|> >It always seemed to me that old Greek and Circcassion are the only 
>|> >languages (that I'm aware of to any extent) that had clusters like /pt/,
>|> 
>|> And French: "petit" = /pti/.
>
>And English:  apt, aptly, lapped, etc., not to mention the usual fast
>speech pronunciation of words like potential.
>
>And Siouan (though hardly relevant here):  cf. Dakotan pte 'cow',
>Mandan pti(re) 'buffalo'.
>

Anybody mentioned Slav yet: ptica ("bird"), etc.?


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