Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Breathy voice=aspiration?
Yes, in effect.  Technically, there are no voiced aspirated stops: what
the Indic languages and Shanghainese have is a voiced stop followed by a
breathy-voiced vowel, or perhaps it would be better to say a voiced stop
onset to a breathy-voiced syllable.

> But everyone seems to agree it's a bilabial stop, which is a higher degree of
> certainty than there, to this amateur, seems to be regarding the POA of *h3.
I can't argue with that.

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