--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:

>
> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > what are the reconstructed Nostratic counterparts of the PIE
> (so-called) laryngeals? Can anybody give me any examples, please?
> Thank you.
>
> It's been suggested that word final h2 (the only laryngeal found word
> finally) developed from PPIE *k (*k doesn't appear word finally).
> Bomhard, IIRC, reconstrcuts 4 laryngeals and equates them with 4
> Afrasian laryngeals. Kortlandt reconstructs 3 laryngeals and links
> them to Uralic and Altaic uvulars. Unfortunately I can't help you with
> examples.

Whoops! Of course h1 is also found word finally. I'm no longer sure
about the lack of word final *k. It seems likely that there would be
some neuter nouns ending in *k in the nom. and acc. sg.