Re: Another desparate scenario

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
wrote:

> The transliterated alphabetic ordering of the reconstructed Proto-
> Dravidian phonemes is displayed on the first page of Krishnamurti's
> online PDF (being excerpts from his book _The Dravidian Languages_)
> at
>
> http://tinyurl.com/22hs3x
>
> As you can see, there's no /*d./. Starostin evidently opines
> otherwise.

To a large extent, it's a different analysis. Starostin's database
interprets the intervocalic single stops as retaining original
voicing, and the geminates as continuing original single voiceless
stops. This system has the advantage of capturing cases where
languages share initial voiced consonants.

Richard.