Re: Questions on Proto-Indo-European
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 12, 2003, 2:09 |
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En réponse à Quentin Read <quonton79@...>:
>
> First of all, how where the consonants bh, dh, and gh
> actually pronounced? I can't really visualize it (or
> audio-lize it).
>
Unless we discover time-travel, we will never be able to know that ;))) . And
even if we did, we'd probably discover that PIE as it is reconstructed was only
a wild guess far from the actual language ;))) (OK, I'm exaggerating a bit
here). But if we follow the classical reconstruction, they should be pronounced
as [b], [d] and [g] followed by a puff of air (voiced too, probably, so it's
nearly undistinguishable from breathy voice), and if we follow the glottalist
reconstruction, they should be just plain voiced consonants.
>
> -Penkwe Reudh
> (the roots upon which my name is based)
>
I would have difficulties finding mine ;))) .
Christophe.
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