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Adjarian's law is a sound law for Armenian language, according to which in certain dialects initial-syllable vowels are fronted after consonants reflecting the inherited Proto-Indo-European (PIE) voiced aspirates. It was named after Hrachia Adjarian. Compare:〔Cited after 〕 * post-PIE *bʰan- "speech" > Karčevan ''ben'', Karabagh ''pen''; compare Classical Armenian ''ban'' without the fronting * post-PIE *dʰal- "green" > Karabagh ''telar''; compare Classical Armenian ''dalar'' without the fronting as opposed to absence of vowel fronting after the non-aspirated voiced stops: * PIE *dom- "house" > Karčevan ''ton'', Karabagh ''ton'' (Classical Armenian ''tun'') * PIE *gʷow- "cow" > Karabagh ''kov'', ''kav'', Karčevan ''kav'' (Classical Armenian ''kaw'') In such cases the vowels first received the () feature in certain contexts, and the () back vowels were then fronted. This conditioning is not a synchronic process, but rather reflects the quality of the original prevocalic consonant. Adjarian's law demonstrates that Proto-Armenian retained the PIE aspirated stops, and has not undergone a Germanic-style consonant shift. This result is important evidence against certain arguments in favor of the glottalic theory of Proto-Indo-European stop system, since such vowel fronting doesn't make sense if the protolanguage voiced aspirates had been simple voiced stops, but does if they were breathy-voiced. Since voiced aspirates then have to be reconstructed for Proto-Armenian, only Germanic can be claimed to be "archaic" for PIE consonantism in the glottalic theory framework. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adjarian's law」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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