Update on *nekw and the N-word

[Yoel L. Arbeitman]

[ moderator re-formatted ]

	It is suggested that you look in any of Bomhard's three books: Towards
Proto-Nostratic (CILT 27, 1984), The Nostratic Macrofamily (Mouton, 1994,
co-authored with John A. Kerns and dealing also with morphology and
syntax). On p.380ff. his unitary phoneme TL is dealt with. It is a
reconstruct whose appearence in his sub-Nostratic languages are quite
different. The third book is Indo-European and the Nostratic Hypothesis
(Signum, 1996).

	Yoel

At 08:28 AM 3/8/99 GMT, you wrote:
>>[ Moderator's response:
>>  There is a serious mixing of levels here, in that a Romance-specific
>>  development is being projected back to Nostratic, although other Indo-
>>  European languages do not have this phonotactic constraint, e. g. Greek.
>>  Before we can even accept it as a parallel, we have to determine what
>>  the digraph <tl> represents in Bomhard, a unit phoneme or a cluster.
>>  --rma ]
>
>A unit phoneme, probably a lateral affricate (> Semitic *s', a
>lateral fricative).
>
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