Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 53085
Date: 2008-02-14

Sumerian is also related to our group of languages.

Where we find Sumerian VC, we find PIE VC, which we know is *HVC;

if, in addition, we can find an Arabic cognate, it is ?/h/¿/H-C,
corresponding to Egyptian j/hC.


Patrick


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> From: Patrick Ryan
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> Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary
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> All the cuneiform signs read conventionally *VC originally had a
> consonantal
> onset.
>
> Patrick
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> Cuneiforms were created by Sumerians
> for the sake of writing their own language
> of which we only have a *vague* idea
> because it was more or less kept
> in Akkadian,
> Your statement can be neither proved nor falsified.
>
> Arnaud
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