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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Davius Sanctex" <gruposdavius@...>
wrote:
> I know that for example semitic laryngeals in disappearing colour
some vowels, and modify their length but in a different way to that
of IE laryngels. For example no semitic laryngeal in desappearing
colour in all context de adjacent vowels with the same outcome in any
case. [this is explained in more detail in Rodriguez Adrados, I will
look for the reference]
Herman Møller, who proposed that Saussure's 'coefficients
sonantiques' were laryngeals as found in the Semitic languages, found
the inspiration for that idea in Assyrian, where also laryngeals were
lost after coloring the adjacent vowel (which reminds me of a theory
that the Assyrian territory, originally Iranian-speaking, was
conquered by Semitic-speakers).
Torsten