From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57353
Date: 2008-04-15
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
> The phonetic realisation of <h> is not one of them. In the passage from
> PIE to Anatolian the whole obstruent system was radically transformed.
> The Anatolian languages are of course enormously important as they
> represent one of the two primary subfamilies of IE, but I wouldn't rely
> on them to reconstruct PIE phonetics.
>
> Piotr
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Why then did you choose to reconstruct H1albh "white"
on the sole basic of Anatolian,
when all the rest of PIE points at H2 ?
Arnaud
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