From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54480
Date: 2008-03-02
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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Additional notes. The Phoenician alphabet had the following
"sibilants":
name sound shape
(7) (d)zE:n dz ~ z "Z"
(15) (t)samk ts ~ s "{Greek XI}"
(18) c.adE: ts' "{like script p}"
(21) s^e:n s^ "W"
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Original values :
(7) *z
(15) *ts > Semitic s
(18) *s? or *ts?
(21) *s
Arnaud
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Greek has:
(Corinthian) san. The shape (M) is a rotated Phoen. s^e:n.
The sound value is that of Phoen. samk /s/. The position is
that of s^e:N (that of ts'adE: in the Euboian model
alphabet). The name is that of Phoen. samk (> sam > san).
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It's higly strange than Greek used
a symbol whose value was /ts/ or /ts?/.
A.
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xei (=/kse:/) (> xi). The shape ({Greek Xi}) is that of
Phoen. samk.
The sound value is a Greek innovation.
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No
Greeks changed *ts into *ks
more useful for them.
And later on invented ps
A.
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The
position is that of samk (that of ts'adE: in Corinth). The
name is that of Phoen. s^e:n.
(Ionian) sámpi (/|\). The shape, sound-value and position
(last), as well as the name, are Greek (Ionian) innovations.
The Euboian model alphabets were found at the
Euboian/Chalkidian colony of Kyme:, in Italy.
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