Re: Laryngeal Loss (was Does Koenraad Elst Meet Hock´s Challenge?)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Yes, yes. Let me rephrase then:
> Why did almost all of IE's and almost none of AfrAs' branches loose
> their _original_ laryngeals at an early date, regardless of whether
> they later developped new ones?

I'll have to check the fate of the "original AA laryngeals" first
(inasmuch as they are reconstructable). I'm by no means sure that they
have survived so well.

Piotr