Re: THEORY: A possible Proto-World phonology

BP Jonsson ewekwet:
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> At 17:15 28.6.2000 -0700, Vima Kadphises wrote:
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> >.  "Laryngealism" in Semitic seems to be an Arabic innovation (which then
> >spread to Aramaic and some dialects of Hebrew); the vogue these
> days is to
> >reconstruct these consonants as ejectives, as they appear in Ethiopic and
> >(to the best of anyone's knowledge) in Akkadian and NorthWest Semitic.
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> And in Egyptian, which is outside Semitic but still inside Afroasiatic.
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> >     The problem is that most Semitists reconstruct Proto-Semitic along
> > the lines of Arabic.  To listen to some of us, you would think that
> > Arabic *is* Proto-Semitic.
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> I heard recently that some "minor" languages of Ethiopia may be
> the closest
> to PS.  Is this widely held?  IMO it's under suspicion to be a fallacious
> parallel to the probably correct view that some (all) Cushitic lgs are
> closer to the ancestor of the "Afro"(*) branch of Afroasiatic -- which
> means only that (Middle) Egyptian and the lgs of the Maghreb are more
> distant from the ancestor, which seems a non-controversial assumption.
For PIe we have the fable owis ekwos-kwe, is there anythin similar in PS? If
there is, could someone share it with us?
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