Re: PS Emphatics
From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 52227
Date: 2008-02-03
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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In Google books
Champollion
L'Égypt sous les Pharaons
(NB Egypt without e !!)
p29
Notice that pemtse becomes baHnasa
there is something with the -m- that triggers Hn.
Asiout > Arabic asiouth
th is Emphatic t?
Arnaud
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