User talk:Crissov
The term guttural originally referred to articulation in the back of the mouth, but has been replaced as a linguistic term due to the linguistically-inaccurate sense that developed and crowded out the original sense. The term laryngeal refers to the voice box or Adam's apple, which is quite a ways down the throat from the mouth. They're not at all synonymous. The use of laryngeal in Indo-European linguistics is a misnomer that became the standard term before anyone had any idea what the sounds in question might be. At least one of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals was probably guttural in the original sense of the word, but that has nothing to do with the meaning of laryngeal outside of PIE studies. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:08, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
- I didn’t want to imply they’re synonymous, just related. guttural [2] could mention all modern phonetic terms it encompasses. Crissov (talk) 09:48, 7 April 2016 (UTC)