Dear Danny and Nostraticists:
----- Original Message -----From: Danny WierSent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 10:41 AMSubject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic databaseI didn't look at the Egyptian data from the website yet, I'll do that soon.About Egyptian /3/ (glottal stop, i.e. /?/) vs. Indo-European /r/: Dolgopolsky links Nost. /r/ to both /r/ and /3/ in Egyptian. Reduction of the rhotic trill to a glottal stop may sound outlandish, but remember in English you have <r> represented by a somewhat pharyngealized retroflex semivowel or whatever it is (probably by way of the German-Dutch-French uvular /R/).<snip>[PCR]I do not doubt that Egyptian 3 ceased being an [r]-sound around MK or late MK times.The only point is that any word from Old Egyptian with a correctly transcribed 3 can ONLY be related to other languages as a reflex of [r].A quick example: the sign used to write 'month' is currently transcribed 3b. Actually, it is **3jb, and this corresponds to IE *reibh-, 'rib'. The connection is the waxing lunar crescent, of course.PatPATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE@...
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