From: Miguel Carrasquer Message: 37308 Date: 2005-04-24
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:57:16 +0000, etherman23
<etherman23@...> wrote:
>Perhaps it was originally a voiced pharyngeal stop, weakened to a
>fricative, and then merged with a pre-existing /z/?
According to the IPA chart, voiced pharyngeal stops are
impossibe. A voiceless pharyngeal stop is technically
doable, but no language has ever been reported using it.
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