Re: `Ayin as [N], was New to the List, too

>
> >it has some interesting features, such as
> >the use of "ng" for 'ayn.  Apparently this is
> >characteristic of the pronunciation of Hebrew in vogue
> >among Dutch Jews even to this day).  <...>
In Palatino's writing book the name of that letter is given as "gnain",
suggesting the pronunciation [n_j] among Italian Jews at the time.



>Funny, I used this type of sound change, [`] > [N], in one of my
>(unpublished) conlangs descending from Arabic. Got this idea from
>simply experimenting with this sound, with additional inspiration
>from an Arabic grammar insisting that `ayn should *not* get
>nasalized...
>
>
>Does anybody know if any similar development is known from modern
>Arabic (Aramaic, Ethiosemitic) dialects?
Some extended Arabic alphabets use `Ayn with three dots above for /N/.  I
always thought that was because nun+ghayn got pronounced [N] by some speakers.


/BP

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