Ejectives   Were there ejectives in PIE Read the following quotation The central tenet of the Glottalic Theory of the ProtoIndoEuropean obstruent system is that what has been traditionally reconstructed as a plain voiced stop series can be more convincingly reconstructed as a series of ejectives which are inherently voiceless However the abundant evidence that this series was voiced has led to outright rejection by many of the Glottalic Theory In an apparent attempt to obviate these objections Frederick Kortlandt claims to have found ample comparative evidence that this series underwent a change from ejectives to implosives to voiced stops in several branches of IndoEuropean In this address evidence will be presented to demonstrate that Kortlandts implosive model is fraught with implausibility and inconsistencies and should also be rejected Simpson Humanities Center  So the evidence that Germanic aspirated or not p t k as well as Armenian nonaspirated p t k stand for original voiced stops is abundant Charles Barrack demonstrated that even Kortlands attempt ejective t  implosive d  Germanic th  Indian d causes objections