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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:
> >> > Bomhard and I differ on the details of the correspondences,
> >> That's significant though, because your two voices don't constitute
> >> cumulative support
> > that is ridiculous.
>
> If the two reconstructions are both possible, then neither is
convincing.
Even PIE suffers from this. The consonants can be reconstructed with
/t d dh/ series, /t t' d/ series, /t t' th/ series, and even /t th d
dh/ series. Some people reconstruct one vowel, some two, some three,
some ten. And how many different versions of the Laryngeal Theory are
there? Most people have settled on three, but I know that some favor
one, some favor two, some favor four, and some even favor twelve. Yet
it's pretty safe to say PIE is the most believable hypothesis. To
explain the similarities amongst the languages.