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Re: Semitic languages & Cultures

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Thursday, May 16, 2002, 22:11
From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>

> En réponse à Balazs Sudar <conlang@...>:
> > What about two consonant roots? Do they need other rules, or they can be > > used like tri-consonant roots? > > Usually they have other rules. But in Semitic languages biconsonantal
roots are
> rather exceptional, and don't have the same range of behaviour as the > triconsonantal roots (mainly, they don't have as many derivations as > triconsonantal roots). As far as I can tell, most biconsonantal roots
don't
> have much of derivatives.
In Arabic, Proto-Semitic bilaterals are often made into trilaterals by doubling the second consonant or prefixing a glottal stop. ~Danny~

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