Re: PS Emphatics

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> Loprieno p43 :
> Indirect evidence of the ejective ( My comment = glottalized)

character of

> voiceless
> stops in Bohairic is also provided by a late medieval Arabic version of
> the apopththegmata PAtrum in Coptic script. [...] Coptic sioout >

Arabic

> asyût?

Is this an isolated example? What are we to make, for example, of the
Cairene Arabic for 'pope, pontiff, patriarch'? It is almost /ba:ba/
but has pharyngealised consonants. (Source: Janet Watson's 'The
Phonology and Morhpology of Arabic')

Richard.