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and while I'm at it, how do I pronounce *h3?
There's a bunch of guesses on how *hβ *hβ and *hβ were pronounced in this Wikipedia page. They're usually defined by their effect in child languages though, so it's possible that some of those were actually multiple sounds.
For *hβ you'll often see values like [Ι£Κ·] or [ΚΚ·]; a labialised consonant (to explain why it often turns nearby vowels into [o] ) and voiced (as there are some claims that it voices nearby consonants, mostly Cowgill's Law)
My personal guess for *hβ is completely heterodox, [ΙΈ]~[Ξ²]. I think that it's directly associated with *b being so uncommon in PIE.
Wow, that article is all proto-indo-european to me!
Thank you! Sadly, I don't talk too much about PIE in Lemmy because... well, it's kind of a niche subject that most users don't care too much about.
Feel free to ask for further info on stuff, though. I do enjoy talking about it!
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