From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 55919
Date: 2008-03-25
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From: Patrick Ryan
The decisive indication for me was that Egyptian <q> and <g> show up
initially in PIE as *g/*g^ and *k/*k^.
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Like which examples ?
Arnaud
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Finally, they are cognate with words that shows PIE *CV(n)g/k-.
Plus, not decisive but considerable, a full phonological system requires a
dorsal nasal to complement the labial and apical nasals.
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Very weak on the contrary
French has existed for 1000 more years until it borrowed
the word smoking.
And many old people have smoki-gne- here.
Arnaud
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