Re: Priimary Stem Formants: =*H, -*i/y, *-u/w

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57102
Date: 2008-04-10

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>

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>> As is supported by Salish heyi "to be alive" and Arabic haya "to live"
>> where h is a glottal voiced fricative.
>> Arnaud
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> This is the 'water' H2, Arabic <H>, dotted <h.>.
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I repeat : h glottal voiced fricative (last but two letter in Arabic script)
haya "to live" = H2.8_y = Salish heyi
hawa "air" = H2.8_w =

Arnaud
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>> As is supported by &_n_x "to breathe" in Egyptian.
>> and s._b "to flow" in Arabic.
> Arnaud
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> Those words have nothing to do with the question.
> Patrick
> ***

I repeat
Egypt &_n_x = H2_n_H1 "to breathe"

Usually H1 is H (pharyngal unvoiced) but sometimes it's x (velar unvoiced).
Conditions for that are unclear.
I think there was only one phoneme at the beginning
but allophonic conditioning is hard to retrieve.

Arnaud
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