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The voiceless stops '''p t k ts tś''' were weakly aspirated like Japanese voiceless stops. | The voiceless stops '''p t k ts tś''' were weakly aspirated like Japanese voiceless stops. | ||
Little is known about the laryngeals '''*Q | Little is known about the laryngeals '''*Q, *X'''. Some conjectured realizations are: | ||
*'''Q''' = /q/ | *'''Q''' = /q/ | ||
*'''X''' = some kind of devoiced back consonant, /h/, /x/ or /ç/ or /q/ | *'''X''' = some kind of devoiced back consonant, /h/, /x/ or /ç/ or /q/ | ||
The laryngeals may have developed allophones in different environments, leading to conditioned reflexes in daughter lnaguages. | The laryngeals may have developed allophones in different environments, leading to conditioned reflexes in daughter lnaguages. |
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