Re: CHAT: Vexillology and games (was: Re: Flag ofEngland)

>>The proto-form is AN *Rusa, where *R stands for the correspondence:  Ml.
>>/r/, Dayak /h/, Jav. zero, Tag. Bis. /g/, with unexpl. irregularities
>>everywhere.

Danny Wier wrote:
>Is R a uvular roll as in German and French?  My best friend's first wife,
an
>Ilokana, said that many Philippine and Malay-Indonesian languages had that
>form of 'r'.>

True, in modern langs. it's variously a voiced or voiceless velar fricative,
in addition to a trill /r/, stop  /g/, glottal fric. /h/,... sometimes /l/,
/y/ and likely others; Polynesian zero.  But in the Proto Language, *R just
represents the correspondence.  It was originally symbolized with l.c.
gamma, _probably_ a voiced velar fric., but that's equivalent to giving
phonetic reality to IE *bh (or was it *p', or....).  A theoretical no-no, at
least to the Old School.