Satem

I'm not convinced it can be concluded with certainty that a Slavic or closely related language let's just say "Satem" cannot have been spoken in the same area in the same time-period & been written in the same alphabet.

Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1 2008

Yes, you're correct: Tocharian is not a Satem language per se.

Diachrony of PIE 2008

Also some propose that "Southern Anatolian" from whence Luwian was an early PIE dialect more affected by neighbouring Satem dialects than "Northern Anatolian".

Diachrony of PIE 2008

Things get more complicated if one ponders a scenario where budding Anatolian dialects are affected by the Satem wave in the north of the Anatolian area and later on provide the basis for satem-like results in Luwian by way of dialect mergers and such.

Diachrony of PIE 2008

An aspiration contrast without a voicing contrast furthermore seems typologically unusual in Europe; no PIE branch develops as such, rather we see the system reverting to plain voiceless/voiced in both Celtic & most of Satem.

Rhaetic inscriptions Schum PU 1 and Schum CE 1 2008

As I said, Tocharian is not Satem per se, but there is historical palatalization that affects its development (e.g. *gʷeneh2 säm (A)/sana (B) 'woman').

Diachrony of PIE 2008

For that matter, it didn't take long for *k and *q to merge in Centum dialects to plain *k while pushing forward to *ć and *k respectively in Satem dialects.

Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE 2008

Even if we reinterpret IE *ḱ and *k as I suggested earlier, a question still remains: Why did Satem dialects choose to push PIE's plain *k forward and palatalize it instead of the simpler option, to merge *k and *ḱ together as plain stops?

Language waves and the satem innovation in PIE 2007

However, palatal velar stops are unstable and quickly turn to affricates, so it wouldn't have been long before *ć and *k were heard throughout Satem IE as became the norm in later Indo-Iranian.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007

We then realize that the Satem dialect area was the innovator, pushing the two stops *k and *q frontward in the mouth.

Archive 2007-10-01 2007