Re: [tied] Re: Dorsals revised

Piotr:

>>Of course you're free to experiment with any number of Pre-PIE >>segments.
>>But you'd better replace *q^ with something else. A >>palatalised uvular
>>would require an impossible articulatory >>manoeuvre (pace some
>>descriptions of Ubykh dorsals).

Miguel:

>I imagine it was "immediately" replaced by *k^ (phonetically [k]).

Of course, Miguel, whatever you say (wink, wink). Hey I have an idea, why
not do away with useless phonemes and go simple?

- gLeN
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