Re: Semitic languages & Cultures

Danny Wier writes:
 > 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~

Just a question on terminology; isn't it "triliteral" - "three
letters" rather than "trilateral" - "three sides"?

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