Re: [tied] Re: PIE laringeals

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 47671
Date: 2007-03-03

 
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From: etherman23
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:57 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE laringeals

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candidate for glottalization and backing of vowels is the glottal
stop. So far as I know cuniform does not have a symbol for the glottal
stop so the symbol for /x/ would have been the closest thing, which is
why Hittite would have used it.

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Cuneiform does not have a "symbol" for any consonantal (or vocalic, I believe) phoneme in isolation.

Cuneiform signs are syllabic so that a sign conventionally read V should be correctly interpreted as ?V, VC as  ?VC

 

Patrick

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