Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Cuneiform has nothing to do with PIE.

It is an invention of the Sumerians, and developed to mind-shattering
complexity by the Babylonians and Assyrians.

Patrick

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Subject: Re: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
>
> All the cuneiform signs read conventionally *VC originally had a
consonantal
> onset.

What's the evidence for that? I mean aside from the theoretical
assumption that all PIE roots were of the form CVC, even though no IE
language supports that assumption.