From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 22733
Date: 2003-06-06
>Secondly, the overabundance of *k (former *k^) in initial consonantI don't understand what you're saying. What's the conection between *q and
>clusters, which we can be sure derive from a CVC pattern, and the
>[+low] quality of uvular *q shows that it is *o that must derive from
>earlier *a (which is [+low] afterall). The vowels are connected to
>an allophonic variation between *k and *q.