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.
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No it's not at all isolated.
There is an old book written by Champollion
before he decoded Hieroglyphic writing,
in which he makes a lot of parallels
between Coptic words and Arabic modern place-names
with cases of Ejectives being represented in Arabic
as emphatics
Arnaud
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