Tibetan wa-zur and Laufer’s law

• Main Author: Jacques, Guillaume
• Other Authors: Université Paris Descartes, CRLAO
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Old Tibetan; Monophthongisation
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177736
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Laufer’s law, according to which proto-Tibetan *-wa monophthongized to -o in Old Tibetan, is almost universally accepted. However, Hill (2006) pointed out that this law seems to be contradicted by the existence of a genuine -wa rhyme in Old Tibetan: unless Old Tibetan -wa has a distinct origin...