Re: CHAT: Glottalized consonants

Ed Heil wrote in response to me:

> >Indo-European: of modern languages, only Armenian (Eastern) and Ossetic
> >(note that these languages are spoken in the Caucasus region); Sindhi
> >somehow came up with voiced implosives (in addition to the voiceless,
> >voiceless aspirate, voiced and voiced aspirate of most Indo-Aryan
> >languages).  However, I have a hunch that Proto-Indo-European (or maybe
> >Pre-Indo-European), could've had ejectives -- I've read an alternative
> >rendering of t-t'-d instead of the traditional t-d-dh.  (This could
>explain
> >Grimm's Law.)  I'm doing this with my conlang Callistic.  Of course this
> >would raise some controversy...
>
>Yes, this is called "glottaltheorie," I believe, and a huge book has been
>written about it by Gamkredlice and Ivanov, revising everything about PIE
>by
>adding those ejectives and re-visioning it in terms of active/stative
>languages.
Ah yes, Gamqrelidze and Ivanov!  Two Soviet linguists who sort of supply the
segue theory for the Nostratic movement.  (Note that the whole Nostratic
theory originated in Russia during the 1960s with the late Vladimir
Ilich-Svitych and Aaron Dogopolsky.  An American? named Alan Bomhard
developed the theory himself as well.  I happen to be on the Nostratic list
myself.)

Danny

It takes a village to raise a village idiot.


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