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:
Is there an answer to this question (If it cannot be answered, say "unanswerable"): What is contrary to the state of affairs in the Nuristani languages?
unanswerable