Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 9, 2003, 14:07 |
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In a message dated 7/9/2003 2:27:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joe@WANTAGE.COM
writes:
> > More about 'laryngeals' -- they are too abstract, too much like
> > mathematical symbols than things that actually look like they could be
> > pronounced. Perhaps what I really oppose is simply the notation involved.
> > I dunno.
>
> That's because it's desputed how they're pronounced.
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Can someone tell me what the current theories are on the pronunciation of PIE
laryngeals?
A rather old book I have suggests the 3 laryngeals might have been [ ? ] , [
h ], and [ G ], or perhaps palatalized, plain and labialized version of [ x ],
but maybe there are new theories.
Doug
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