[tied] Re: PIE laringeals

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:

> One might care to claim that this sign was the Akkadian symbol for
> glottal stop! It's the same character as used for ax/ix/ux in
> Hittite. (Unfortunately, I can't identify it from the Unicode charts!
> In Neo-Assyrian, it's the same as <im> (Sumerian for 'clay') but
> ending in three vertical wedges, not two.)

I've now identified it with the help of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_cuneiform - it's U+12134
CUNEIFORM SIGN HI TIMES NUN. There's an interesting remark in the
Wiki page about U+1202A CUNEIFORM SIGN ALEPH - 'late variant of AH'.
(I've dropped the diacritic on the 'H'.)

Richard.