Re: elementary Sanskrit blunder by Harvard professor

ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx (in sci.lang):

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


PIE is not supposed to have had *z, so what is the story of a *z in PII?

Joachim
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