Re: Another desparate scenario

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@>
> wrote:
>
> > According to B. Krishnamurti and other Dravidian linguists,
> > there is no /*d./ (retroflex /d/) phoneme in Proto-Dravidian.
>
> That's how I read it in http://tinyurl.com/2xtkmb but I might be
> wrong.

The transliterated alphabetic ordering of the reconstructed Proto-
Dravidian phonemes is displayed on the first page of Krishnamurti's
online PDF (being excerpts from his book _The Dravidian Languages_)
at

http://tinyurl.com/22hs3x

As you can see, there's no /*d./. Starostin evidently opines
otherwise.

Regards,
Francesco