From: Etherman23
Message: 64964
Date: 2009-09-02
>There's some debate about this. My personal view is that in initial position *h1 is Uralic *0, and *h2/*h3 is *k. In non-initial position all are *k. However, there are two distinct sources for the laryngeals. IE *H also corresponds to Uralic *j. This seems pretty solid in word initial position, but I'm also coming to think that this held in non-word initial position as well (perhaps in all syllable initial positions, it's not perfectly clear yet). This second correspondence is important because examples of the first correspondence are often considered to be borrowings from IE into PU (or one of its daughters).
> Given that a few people out there are postulating Indo-Uralic, how
> would Indo-Uralic layngeals look? What would they have transformed
> into in Uralic? Apologies if IU is off topic --we can move this over
> to Nostratic if the moderators wish.