A question on Proto-Afro-Asiatic

Danny Wier:

>Nilo-Saharan languages, however, have larger consonant inventories, >and
>Hausa and Chadic in general probably got its implosive voiced >stops from
>NS.

Why can't implosives simply be derived from earlier AA ejectives?

- gLeN

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