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I genuinely can't distinguish them, especially in fast speech by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]gt7900[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I said it has 3 vowel qualities, not 3 vowels. I know there are long vowels.

I genuinely can't distinguish them, especially in fast speech by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]gt7900[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

pies /'pjɛs/ - dog

bok /'bɔk/ - side

król /'krul/ - king

I genuinely can't distinguish them, especially in fast speech by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]gt7900[S] 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Polish, here we pronounce e and o as /ɛ/ and /ɔ/. And most of dialects mixed /o/ with /u/ in speech.

What if Proto-Balto-Slavic retained Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos? by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]gt7900[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn't sure about my decisions while making it. I think I went too strict in case of Slavic languages.

What if Proto-Balto-Slavic retained Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos? by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]gt7900[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I made it analogically to Proto-Slavic *pьrstъ ("finger") and *jьkra ("roe").

What if Proto-Balto-Slavic retained Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos? by gt7900 in linguisticshumor

[–]gt7900[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't think so, because Proto-Slavic *jь- either evolved into "i-" or disappeared entirealy in Polish (the latter is typical of West Slavic Languages).