Re: [tied] Ermine

From: glen gordon
Message: 39776
Date: 2005-08-25

Whetex_lewx wrote:
> As my knowledge reaches both germanic h and baltic
> s^ came from proto-indo-european *kh.

Say wha? Are you using a crappy Romanian-to-English
program or something? That sentence makey no sense,
bro.

There is no PIE voiceless aspirate like **kH. It was
invented to wish away the typological problems
presented by *k-*g-*gH.

However, if *gH is merely fully voiced and *g is
half-voiced, then there is no need for **kH to
balance out the system, nor is there good evidence
justifying a fourth phoneme in this series anyway.


= gLeN




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