Re: [tied] *h3 (More deja-vu)

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:40:42 +0200 (MET DST), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>Could it be of interest that the Arabic letter names ka:f and qa:f have
>prescribed pronunciations with very different vowels, ka:f having the long
>counterpart of Eng. man (which actually is long in most varieties of
>English), while qa:f has the vowel of Eng. call or crawl? Great variation
>is expected in systems with few phonemes.

In contemporary "Classical" Arabic pronunciation, short /a/ is pronounced as
back [A] (instead of as [æ] or [E]) in the neighborhood of emphatic /s./, /d./,
/t./, /z./, as well as uvular /q/, the velar fricatives /x/ and /G/, and the
rhotic /r/.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...