generate questions: 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:
What languages share a similar situation? {sep_token} What other elements of early Iranian languages problematize the east-west division? {sep_token} What is the linguistic categorization of *ćw and *dźw? {sep_token}