Re: finally, a non-cretinous exposition of the Laryngeal theory

On Aug 31, 12:05 pm, "Richard Wordingham" <jrw0...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<analys...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As far as I know - no Indian language (present or past) has stops
further back than "k" which can be called the king of IE sounds.

Uvular: Urdu, an Indic language, has /q/.

borrowed from Arabic/Persian and I would suspect only for words of
Arabic/persian origin.


Glottal: Kharia, a Munda language, definitely has word final /?/.

Richard.

So apparently does Santali, including 'checked consonants'. These
souds would be exotic to Indians who speak major literarary
languages. A script called Ol Chiki apparently had to be invented to
properly represent Santali consonants and also vowels, which Bengali,
Oriya etc. scripts couldn't accurately reproduce.

These 'tribal' languages of course face a dim future - fated to be
absorbed into Hindi in all likelihood.
.

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