From: johnvertical@...
Message: 65052
Date: 2009-09-18
> I think you hit the nail on the head with Syriac. /g/ AFAIK (and please correct me if I'm wrong) only exists in Egyptian, so it must have been replaced by /dzh, zh/ shortly after the conquest of Egypt in the 600s.It's supposedly also found in some Yemeni varieties; but that doesn't really help on this particular topic.