Re: Phonology Help (Aramaic and Pashto)

 --- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote: > On
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:34:18 +0100 Eamon Graham
> <robertg@...>
> writes:
> > The main issue are the Aramaic emphatic
> consonants.  I'll be
> > honest:
> > I'm not quite sure what they are or how they would
> fit in to such a
> > scheme.  Little help? :)
> > Cheers,
> > Eamon
> -
>
> I don't know about Modern Aramaic (=Syraic?), but
> supposedly common
> Semitic emphatics were originally glottalized.
> Modern Arabic uses
> pharyngealization or velarization, instead.
> According to the
> "Pronunciations of Hebrew" article in the
> Encyclopedia Judaica,
> Aramaic-speaking Jews pronounce Hebrew's emphatics
> as velarized, so i'd
> assume that's how Aramaic emphatics are pronounced
> too.
>
is there any difference in the pronunciation of
emphatics in modern hebrew ? i don't trust the
evidence of the uk jewish friends i've asked as they
tend to be phone deaf and unable to speak more than a
few words

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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