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| | Was Slavic a Prussian Dialect? |
 | | Common Slavic and Common Prussian both represent an unaspirated long versus short four-vowel4 satem system with s,z as reflexes of Indo-European k', g'(g'h) rather than either th, d as in Albanian and Old Persian (which is Southwest Iranian), or š, ž as in Lithuanian. |
 | | These special features, unique to Lithuanian, Latvian, and Prussian, which underscores the equation of ruki law reflexes with reflexes of Indo-European palatals k', g', g'h, are what I call "fortifying" -k- and -g-14 These began to be used, essentially, for morphological purposes. |
 | | Prussian, Latvian, and Lithuanian "fortifying" -k- and -g-are found primarily before an expected ruki law reflex, then before the reflexes of Indo-European palatals k', g', g'h, and finally before the reflexes of Indo-European s in otherwise analogous environments, principally when they appear before a consonant, in most cases, t or d. |
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