Anatolian evidence suggests that the Indo-European laryngeals *h2 and *h3 were uvular stops

2018/12/05 by Alwin Kloekhorst · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · #Linguistics and language evolution #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Ancient Near East History #Linguistics #Indo-European languages #History #Philosophy

paper · pdf · doi:10.1163/22125892-00601003

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Abstract

Abstract In this article it will be argued that the Indo-European laryngeals * h 2 and * h 3 , which recently have been identified as uvular fricatives, were in fact uvular stops in Proto-Indo-Anatolian. Also in the Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Luwic stages these sounds probably were stops, not fricatives.

Citations

• The Carian Language
• The Anatolian stop system and the Indo-Hittite hypothesis

Cited by

• Anatolian languages [wikipedia]
• Laryngeal theory [wikipedia]

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