Re: Horse Sense (was: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?)

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> Because the earliest PIE speakers seem to have been voiceless spirant-shy:
> no *f, no *x/ç. You will mention Hittite <h> as [x]; its employment for
> all notated 'laryngeals' suggests strongly Hittite <h> was [h] not [x].
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Pure fancy.

PIE inherited *x (velar voiceless) and *H (pharyngeal voiceless).

Arnaud

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