Re: [Re: [Re: Roll Your Own IE language]]

Edward Heil wrote:

> Lehmann's book is pissing me off though.  When I studied with Weiss, we used
> nice simple symbols for the laryngeals: H1, H2, H3.  These were the
> noncoloring, A-coloring, and O-coloring laryngeals, respectively.  Lehmann
> uses IPA symbols and I'm having a hard time nailing down which is which.  I
> believe ? (glottal stop), h or maybe x, and the voiced velar fricative symbol
> (that V with a curly on the bottom), correspond to H1, H2, and H3
> respectively.
All this is that Lehmann is being more speculative about the phonological
nature of the laryngeals.  No one really claims to know what the actual
phonetic character of the laryngeals is/was;   we can guess, but, at this point
at least, that's about all we can do.

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