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

Alwin Kloekhorst

2018.12.5Indo-European Linguistics

DOI: 10.1163/22125892-00601003

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Anatolian evidence suggests that Indo-European laryngeals *h2 and *h3 were uvular stops, contrary to recent identification as fricatives.

Abstract

In this article it will be argued that the Indo-European laryngeals *h2 and *h3, 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.

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KLOEKHORST, Alwin. Anatolian evidence suggests that the indo-European laryngeals *h2 and *h3 were uvular stops. Indo-European Linguistics, 2018.