From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56005
Date: 2008-03-26
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')
That was a progressive tendency in Etruscan. Early
Etruscan does tend to show vowels while the later
inscriptions tend delete all vowels except the initial
ones suggesting that Etruscan either eliminated most
non-inital vowels or reduced them to schwas or
unvoiced vowels
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This idea that consonantal writing
does not exist north of the Mediterranean
is falsified by at least one Greek inscription :
APLOWN
Supposedly a strange Apollo:n
It's consonants
?_p_l_&_w_n
Unwritten scheme a_o_zero_o
Arnaud
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