Re: Original Nature of Emphatics (was: IS PIE * DERU EXCLUSIVELY

Bomhard has a nice assembly of evidence for glottalisation being more
primitive in 'Reconstructing Proto-Nostratic: Comparative Phonology,
Morphology and Vocabulary', which he was distributing last year. Have
you read it?

Just looking at the cognates (I trust) in extant languages we have:

1. Neo-Aramaic dialects have glottalised consonants.
2. South Arabian languages have glottalised consonants
3. Ethipoian Semitic languages (I presume he excludes Arabic!) have
glottalised consonants
4. Berber languages have pharyngealisation, as in Arabic
5. Chadic has a mixture of implosive and ejective consonants - the
pattern being implosive at the front and ejective at the back
6. Cushitic and Omotic show a similar picture to Chadic, though a few
languages have retroflex coronals.
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We can add to the "collection" that
Many Touareg dialects have uvular emphasis.
And any glottalized inherited or any velar spirant
causes a full emphasis on all consonants including clitics...
Awesome.

Arnaud