On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 11:17:46 -0200, João Simões Lopes Filho
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jodan99@...> wrote:
>Thanks. I thought Etruscan cezph was pronnounce like Latin ce- ci-, as /s/
>or /ts/.
Classical Latin also had /ke/, /ki/. Etruscan cezp was pronounced
/ketsp/, with /k-/ as in Etr. <ci> "three".
>Is Basque Z pronnounced as /s/ ? Was not /th/ ?
<z> is a laminal alveolar sibilant (like N. French or S. Spanish /s/),
<s> is an apical alveolar sibilant (like S. french or N. Spanish /s/).
Latin /s/ was borrowed into Basque as <z>, Spanish and Gascon /s/ is
borrowed as Basque <s>.
I would transcribe /s/ and /s'/, although it's possible that
ultimately (in (Pre-)Pre-Basque) this derives from *s vs. *s^ ("sh")
[cf. my suggestion wanas^ -> *banas' > mahats].
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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