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Friday, October 31st, 2014
Proto-Indo-European Origins
It is proposed that Proto-Indo-European had a single original vowel timbre: e (though I've also seen original e and o claimed - by G. Bourcier, for example, in History of the English Language, (Stanley Thornes:Cheltenham, UK:1981, pp. 30ff.)
The three proposed basic vowel timbres of the reconstructed system are ...
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Sunday, October 26th, 2014
The standard reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop consonant system is:
voicelessvoicedvoiced aspirated
labialpbbh
dentaltddh
velar, palatovelark, k'g, g'gh, g'h
labiovelarkwgwgwh
The remaining consonants are:
fricative: s
laryngeals: ...
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Sunday, March 16th, 2014
When the Dharma is forgotten in the world another Buddha arises to renew it. The earliest version seems to have 7 buddhas in this age, of whom gOtama is the current. These are mentioned in the Pali canon in the dIghanikAya (ii, pp 5ff) and sa~yuttanikAya (ii, pp. 5f) of ...
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
A temple site constructed, used, and reconstructed over a period of ~ 4ky from ~ 12.5 ky BP. Its material culture, location, and date make it part of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA.) The builders and users are assumed to be hunter-gatherers as no residential use structures have been discovered ...
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