Re: Unusual Phonolgy

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> I have run into a correspondence between two languages (I think) that

puzzles me greatly.

>
> In one language, /¿/ (pharyngeal stop) seems to be corresponding
> to "cognates" _written_ z in another.

Sure that's not a voiced pharyngeal fricative? I only ask because the
IPA chart shows no such animal (but the spot for it is not blacked out
either).

> Presumably, z was /ts/ though it may have been pronounced as /z/
> (also possibly /ts/ or even /dz/).

If it's /ts/ could it be some sort of palatalization of the stop?
Perhaps the stop became a fricative then "fronted" to /z/?