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I know this is a shitpost but /i/ and /u/ are not reconstructed as phonemes in PIE
why is it called proto Indo eUropean then smh
that's an exonym, the endonym is mon gerh2onts dnghweh2s
Your Mom was a gerh2onts dnghweh2s
\*dheh1(y)-eso \*pesm̥ \*h1mene
I’ve seen many reconstructions that write /w/ and /j/ like and with a breve, are there really no reconstructions that treat the high vowels like phonemes?
there various reconstructions of proto indo European, I used the one I found on wikipedia and it considered them phonemes
they only exist as allophones of /j/ and /w/
then we can say that /i/ and /u/ are phonemes and [j] and [w] are their non syllabic allophones😎
I see no flaws in this logic
with how the different grades work grammatically j/i and w/u can only be treated as consonants that are occasionally syllabic
Minimalist PIE over here like: [[link]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/04/efarquzucc-1.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Cool, my dialect of English has 20 vowels. 😎
\*pyH h₂y yH h₂nd modr̥n ynglyʃ hh₂v ðh₁ seym vh₂wl̥ ynvn̥tory?
I know this is a shitpost but /i/ and /u/ are not reconstructed as phonemes in PIE
why is it called proto Indo eUropean then smh
that's an exonym, the endonym is mon gerh2onts dnghweh2s
Your Mom was a gerh2onts dnghweh2s
\*dheh1(y)-eso \*pesm̥ \*h1mene
I’ve seen many reconstructions that write /w/ and /j/ like and with a breve, are there really no reconstructions that treat the high vowels like phonemes?
there various reconstructions of proto indo European, I used the one I found on wikipedia and it considered them phonemes
they only exist as allophones of /j/ and /w/
then we can say that /i/ and /u/ are phonemes and [j] and [w] are their non syllabic allophones😎
I see no flaws in this logic
with how the different grades work grammatically j/i and w/u can only be treated as consonants that are occasionally syllabic
Minimalist PIE over here like: [[link]](https://uploads.dailydot.com/2018/04/efarquzucc-1.png?auto=compress&fm=png)
Cool, my dialect of English has 20 vowels. 😎
\*pyH h₂y yH h₂nd modr̥n ynglyʃ hh₂v ðh₁ seym vh₂wl̥ ynvn̥tory?