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

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > While nothing about a reconstructed language may be "reliable" an absolute
> > sense, but there certainly can be different degrees of reliablity between
> > differentparts of a reconstruction. The interpretation of *bh surely is
> alot
> > more reliable than any of the interpretations of *h3.
>
> That depends on whether you read it as b with breathy voice, as
> traditionally, or as simply b, as the glottalic theory has it.
Breathy voice=aspiration?

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.

                                                 Andreas

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