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There's also the fact most Afrasian languages have a 3-vowel system like the one proposed for Europic, presumably as the result of a collapse like the one proposed by Orel and Stolbova (1995), which differs from the Great Vowel Collapse (GVC) in that vowels '''e, o''' developed into '''i, u''' or the corresponding glides '''j, w'''. If we assume a similar evolution between Europic and PIE, then we'll have Europic '''*e''' > PIE '''*ei ~ *oi ~ *i''' and Europic '''*o''' > PIE '''*eu ~ *ou ~ *u''', where '''*e ~ *o''' is the IE Ablaut vowel, which developed from '''*a''' except in OEH and Indo-Iranian. As a consequence, the GVC never happened. | There's also the fact most Afrasian languages have a 3-vowel system like the one proposed for Europic, presumably as the result of a collapse like the one proposed by Orel and Stolbova (1995), which differs from the Great Vowel Collapse (GVC) in that vowels '''e, o''' developed into '''i, u''' or the corresponding glides '''j, w'''. If we assume a similar evolution between Europic and PIE, then we'll have Europic '''*e''' > PIE '''*ei ~ *oi ~ *i''' and Europic '''*o''' > PIE '''*eu ~ *ou ~ *u''', where '''*e ~ *o''' is the IE Ablaut vowel, which developed from '''*a''' except in OEH and Indo-Iranian. As a consequence, the GVC never happened. | ||
Also in this system, '''i, u''' were actually ''semivowels'' and hence they couldn't appear before resonants | Also in this system, '''i, u''' were actually ''semivowels'' and hence they couldn't appear before resonants. In that case, the resonant shifted to the syllable onset, so there's also no need for the RCL. | ||
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Europic and Afrasian
If the speakers of Europic were Neolithic farmers who came to Europe from the Near East, we should expect a close relationship between Europic and Afrasian (aka Afro-Asiatic), as implictly suggested by Vennemann, who proposed an "Atlantidic" (aka "Semitidic") substrate to explain some Germanic words of non-IE origin.
There's also the fact most Afrasian languages have a 3-vowel system like the one proposed for Europic, presumably as the result of a collapse like the one proposed by Orel and Stolbova (1995), which differs from the Great Vowel Collapse (GVC) in that vowels e, o developed into i, u or the corresponding glides j, w. If we assume a similar evolution between Europic and PIE, then we'll have Europic *e > PIE *ei ~ *oi ~ *i and Europic *o > PIE *eu ~ *ou ~ *u, where *e ~ *o is the IE Ablaut vowel, which developed from *a except in OEH and Indo-Iranian. As a consequence, the GVC never happened.
Also in this system, i, u were actually semivowels and hence they couldn't appear before resonants. In that case, the resonant shifted to the syllable onset, so there's also no need for the RCL.
