Re: Conlangs on based Slavic languages...etc

Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> I thought Hittite was supposed to maintain the older active:inactive
> gender system and at least some of the laryngeals that no other IE
> language did?
Well, at least the laryngeals were already hypothesized for PIE before
the Hittite decipherment, so Hittite provided welcome confirmation for
laryngealists rather than anything really novel.

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