Re: Proto-Indo-European, glottalic theory and consonant inventories.

Quoting Steven Williams <feurieaux@...>:

> Oh, for words like *dheghom (if I recall the root
> correctly), right? I was wondering about that, since
> /tk/ sequences in the initial position are highly
> marked (and pretty hard to articulate), unless there
> are other stop-stop sequences like /pt/ and /kp/ to
> shore them up.
My conlang Tairezazh has a few words with initial tk-, but then it has lots of
weird initial clusters. Some of my favourites include vd-, fk-, and stn-.

                                      Andreas

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