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Re: Case

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, July 16, 1999, 19:39
On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 14:21:05 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote: >> It's also one of the two pharyngeal [H 3] letters
>So, is [H] the voiceless pharyngeal fricative, h-bar in IPA? >-- >AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor
Yup, _hhet_. During Hebrew's long history, Proto-Semitic [x] merged into [H] - and then [x] reappeared later, as an allophone of [k]! The same thing happened with [3 G]>>[3], /g/>>[g G]. -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.