Lynx (was Re: Uralic and IE)

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Glen and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Gordon <glengordon01 at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 9:29 PM

<snip>

> I think we're going off topic here. Miguel brought this up in
> connection with his idea that IE once had *-k (??) which was
> originally in connection to external relationships like Uralic with
> IE.

And, even more importantly, we see in lynx a preservation of Nostratic [nk],
a dorsal nasal, which shows up in Semitic as [q], but is frequently
simplified to IE [k].

Pat

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