Re: [tied] Greek laryngeals

Phonecian/Greek laryngeal theory
Miguel's and Piotr's responses seem more than adequate, but I would like
also to suggest that the timing is wrong.

We might be able to argue for hints that the laryngeals still survived in
the earliest Greek we can reconstruct, but the alphabet was not adopted
until very much later. (Details not readily at hand - my impression is that
it's well after 1000 BC). At the time when the alphabet is imported, the
laryngeals would alas have long gone - we see no sign of their continued
existence in Mycenean, some hundred of years earlier.

Peter