Re: Laryngeal Loss (was Does Koenraad Elst Meet Hock´s Challenge?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Now back to my question: Is loss of laryngeals a sign that there

was

> once a substrate? Arabic having kept all the laryngeals of Semitic
> seems to conform to such a claim, as does Modern Hebrew having lost
> most of them. Or?

Perhaps the desert air preserves them!

I'm not sure that velar fricatives should be counted as laryngeals.

Richard.