Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 12:34 -0400 2005-08-07, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> I was only explaining my relation to the term "labiovelar".
>
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labiovelar
> >
> >Please don't cite Wikipedia as if it were authoritative on any topic.
>
> I suspect that in saying that the term labiovelar is ambiguous as to
> labial-velar on the one hand and labialized velar on the other, the
> Wikipedia has supplied accurate and useful information.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_T._Daniels may also have some
> accurate facts in it. ;-)

It was quoted to me once, and yes, it had _some_ "accurate facts" in it.
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