Re: ka and k^a [was: [tied] *kW- "?"]

I've been away, so I'm slow off the mark with this one.

.the Greeks, when they adopted the

>Phoenician alphabet and supposedly invented true alphabetic writing
>by letting three Phoenician signs for laryngeals (vel sim.!) stand
>for vowels, in fact did not make such an epoch-making change because
>the three PIE laryngeals were still pronounced then and the first
>Greek alphabet was just as vowel-less as the Semitic ones,

Absolute balderdash, of course. The writing system which was borrowed from
the Phoenicians, and is now used for Greek, came into use nearly a thousand
years after our first recorded samples of Greek, which were written in
Linear B. Despite attempts to find them, there is no clear evidence that
laryngeals survive in Linear B Greek, nor in Homer.

Peter