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From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
To: <Nostratic-L@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Nostratic-L] Re: LAPIS PHILOSOPHORUM


Two phonological developments in the Proto-Language phonological inventory
had far-reaching consequences:

1) for whatever reason (palatal glide[?], all ¿E became *y; and

2) all NH became *l.

In my opinion, this is a ultimate source of the laterals reconstructed for
Proto-Semitic.