Nuristani languages *ćw and *dźw consonant clusters
What languages share a similar situation? What other elements of early Iranian languages problematize the east-west division? What is the linguistic categorization of *ćw and *dźw?
As a common intermediate stage, it is possible to reconstruct depalatalized affricates: *c, *dz. (This coincides with the state of affairs in the neighboring Nuristani languages.) A further complication however concerns the consonant clusters *ćw and *dźw:
question: What languages share a similar situation?, answer: Nuristani languages | question: What other elements of early Iranian languages problematize the east-west division?, answer: *ćw and *dźw | question: What is the linguistic categorization of *ćw and *dźw?, answer: consonant clusters