From: Anthony Appleyard
Message: 38981
Date: 2005-06-29
> h1 was probably /h/ or /?/.
> h2 may have been a velar or post-velar fricative.
> h3 may have been voiced (though evidence is slim) and may have been
> rounded.
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
> My own personal feelings are:
> h1 was earlier /h/ and then /?/.
> h2 was earlier /x/ and then /h/.
> h3 was earliest /¿/, earlier /xW/, and then /hW/.
I tend to think that:-
The ordinary h1 was glottal stop.
The second h1 that some people proposed, was /h/.
h2 was the voiceless epiglottal fricative, as in Arabic h2ams = "five",
Muh2ammad (the name).
h3 was the voiced epiglottal fricative, as in Arabic h3ayn = "spring
(water source)" or "eye".