Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients

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1. Story
2. Jerzy Kuryłowicz identified the consonant transcribed h in Hittite with the abstract elements Saussure had posited in 1879 on purely internal grounds, showing that Hittite preserved a reflex in a substantial share of the predicted positions. A reconstruction made without evidence, forty-eight years earlier, was corroborated by a language recovered from the ground in the interval. The number and phonetic value of the laryngeals remain argued; their existence does not.
3. Knowledge
4. Laryngeal theory
5. Proto-Indo-European
6. Hittite
7. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
8. Connections
9. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
10. Laryngeal theory
11. Hittite
12. Proto-Indo-European
13. Ferdinand de Saussure
14. Hittite
15. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
16. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
17. Laryngeal theory
18. Indo-European
19. Hattusa (Boğazkale)
20. The Boğazköy tablet archives are excavated
21. Hrozný identifies Hittite as an Indo-European language
22. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
23. Indo-European
24. The comparative method
25. Anatolia
26. The Pontic–Caspian steppe
27. Saussure posits consonants no language attests
28. Kuryłowicz matches Hittite h to Saussure's coefficients
29. Proto-Indo-European is spoken
30. A Bayesian phylogeny dates Indo-European to the Anatolian Neolithic
31. Ancient DNA finds a mass movement from the steppe into Europe
32. A hybrid model is proposed for the Indo-European origin
33. Evidence
34. Supports the identification of the Hittite laryngeal with Saussure's posited coefficients, which is the corroboration of laryngeal theory. V55 verification basis: this session had no access to any source — WebFetch was egress-blocked for every host attempted and the WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring — so the cited work was not retrieved, and no page, volume or figure quoted from it was re-checked. Cited without pagination; the title is given in the form conventional in the Indo-European literature and was not verified against the volume.