> > *h2 was maintained in Anatolian as velar /x/ (or uvular /X/), and
>.....presented in Anatolian as the
> German ach-laut, or similar, ....
I have read that there is no evidence at all that the sound transcribed as
<h with a thing underneath it> was actually a velar fricative in Hittite.
It could simply have been /h/ as in English. The transcription comes from
the tradition of transcribing it that way within all cuneiform inscriptions,
which itself can be questioned. In Hittite there is no other /h/ sound.
How far is this accurate?
Peter