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: COUNT 3
QSN1 What languages share a similar situation? ANS1 Nuristani languages QSN2 What other elements of early Iranian languages problematize the east-west division? ANS2 *ćw and *dźw QSN3 What is the linguistic categorization of *ćw and *dźw? ANS3 consonant clusters