Some Proto-Muskogean correspondence sets show a correspondence between /n/ in Western Muskogean and /ł/ in other Muskogean languages. An example is the following set for FISH:
Choctaw and Chickasaw nani'
Alabama & Koasati łało
Hitchiti & Mikasuki ła:ł-i
Creek łało
Mary Haas reconstructed this phoneme as *N, but its phonetic realization has always been somewhat uncertain.
I have begun to notice some cases where this PM phoneme matches with /t/ in Timucua:
FATHER PM *iNki Timucua iti
BROTHER (of a woman) PM *NakfV Timucua tafi 'brother-in-law (of a woman)'
ARROW PM *Naki Timucua atulu?
Several PM kin terms end in -ki, which is probably separable. If the BROTHER word contains a metathesized version of the same -ki, then possibly the pre-Proto-Muskogean are
FATHER pPm *iN(i)
BROTHER pPM *Naf(i)
This relationship might make sense if PM*N = θ.
Choctaw and Chickasaw nani'
Alabama & Koasati łało
Hitchiti & Mikasuki ła:ł-i
Creek łało
Mary Haas reconstructed this phoneme as *N, but its phonetic realization has always been somewhat uncertain.
I have begun to notice some cases where this PM phoneme matches with /t/ in Timucua:
FATHER PM *iNki Timucua iti
BROTHER (of a woman) PM *NakfV Timucua tafi 'brother-in-law (of a woman)'
ARROW PM *Naki Timucua atulu?
Several PM kin terms end in -ki, which is probably separable. If the BROTHER word contains a metathesized version of the same -ki, then possibly the pre-Proto-Muskogean are
FATHER pPm *iN(i)
BROTHER pPM *Naf(i)
This relationship might make sense if PM*N = θ.