Re: Comparative Notes on Hurro-Urartian, Northern Caucasian and Indo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>> Arnaud
> >> I can't see any reason why the first phoneme should be
> >> different from the last.

> > Because you haven't looked at enough data. I imagine that
> > the Ge'ez, Tigrinya, Sabaean, and Mehri reflexes are part of
> > the evidence for the different third consonant.

> I imagine that ...
> Where is your data ?

You've had the references. They are exceptions to C1=C3. One can
also see the first consonant assimilating to the third because the
third consonant is the same as the first consonant of the word for
'2'. That is a universal tendency.

You, on the other hand, need to argue for dissimilation for the
exceptional languages.

> > But trying to find regular correspondences between PIE and
> > PSem. is rather pointless, unless you think that PIE is a
> > branch of Afro-Asiatic.

> I'm trying to remain calm,
> in front of such idiocy.
> I made a vow.

Didn't you claim that PIE was actually an AA language?

Of course, if there was a limited period in which PIE received many
loans from Semitic, one could also get regular correspondences that way.

Richard.