Revised Proposal
One objection that has been raised against the glottalic reconstruction is that the voiced stops are voiceless in some daughter languages: 'unvoiced' in Tocharian and Anatolian, aspirates, later fricatives in Greek and Italic. Thus, some more recent versions of the Glottalic Theory hypothesis do not have voiced consonants at all, or treat voicing as non-distinctive. Such an inventory is:
| labials | dentals | velars | uvulars | labialized velars | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiceless stops | p | t | k | q | kʷ |
| ejective or glottalized stops | (pʼ) | tʼ | kʼ | qʼ | kʷʼ |
| aspirated stops | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | qʰ | kʷʰ |
(Here the traditional palatalized vs. plain velar dichotomy is treated as a velar-uvular contrast, as posited by Hopper 1981. This is not required for the Glottalic Theory, and it may have been allophonic at an early stage in the proto-language.)
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