It is generally taken for granted that the present-day pronunciation of Arm. p' t' k' represents the original status: Meillet (Esquisse 23) simply states this view without discussion: ‘Il y avait trois séries d'occlusives ... chacune d'elles existant sous forme de sourde non aspirée, de sourde aspirée (c'est-à-dire où l'explosion était suivie d'un souffle) et de sonore'. In spite of the general agreement upon this matter, it seems worth while to take it up again and test the common view of p' t' k', since this view appears to be based only on the present-day situation.