Michael Everson wrote:

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> At 17:30 +0200 2005-08-07, Henrik Theiling wrote:
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> >I think kp and gb are labiovelar and kw and gw are labialised.
>
> It's ambiguous. When I did Indo-European we used labiovelar for kw/gw.

But now you're talking about West Africa, which has specialized the
terminology in a direction relevant to its own phenomena.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labiovelar

Please don't cite Wikipedia as if it were authoritative on any topic.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...