Re: beyond langauges

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

[> Patrick Ryan wrote: - RW.]

>> That has already been done by Bomhard.

> I don't think &h can be a phoneme of PIE
> and I don't think tl > k makes sense.

So Trubetzkoy's notion that NE Caucasian *tL could become /k/, /c/ or
/q/ is mistaken? For clusters, tl > kl > k makes excellent sense.

Richard.