Re: elementary Sanskrit blunder by Harvard professor

On Sep 14, 5:38 pm, analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
PIIr never existed.

Proto-Indic is what the West calls PIE (or at least the Indian dialect
of it).

Did your proto-Indic have a [z]?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Iranians
Among the sound changes from Proto-Indo-Iranian to Indo-Aryan is the
loss of the voiced sibilant *z

Even if this was the only sound change, the language with [z] was
protoIndoIranian and the first Indic language with [z] replaced by [s]
was protoIndic.
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