15-05-2020, 08:18 AM
(14-05-2020, 11:09 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.words like čtvrť, I wonder to myself if these are resonances of bygone abjads
I doubt it, because abjads are an aspect of writing, not of spoken language.
I once heard, but Koen is the expert who can confirm/reject, that vowels are "recent" developments of human speech capabilities, and primitive languages did not have them. This would be leftovers of that, or more accurately, the sounds of "l" and "r" were originally equivalent to vowels.