Danny Wier:
>Hey I remember you from Nostratic-L!
'Tis I, I'm afraid. I remember you too!
>I assume that /x/ is one of the laryngeals? Is that the same as /H/ (H1,
>H2, H3)? [...]
>The laryngeals are possibly split the same way; since the three H's
>result in the vowels e/a/o, I wouldn't doubt these being H^/H/Hw (or
>x^/x/xw).
I'm still going for:
H1 = /?/
H2 = /x/
H3 = /xW/
One might argue that there is, in reality, only binary opposition of the
velars in IE (*k and *kW) and that *k^ arose from *k amidst front vowels. So
I would prefer a similar binary opposition between *H2 and *H3 (*x and *xW)
with *H1 being unrelated to the rest of the laryngeal series.
Afterall, we don't see an opposition between *H1 and *H2 like we do with *k^
and *k, do we?
- gLeN
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