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

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:57:01 -0700, Vima Kadphises
<vima_kadphises@...> wrote:

>    Allow myself to introduce ... myself to the list.
>My name is Chollie Häberl <...>
Hello, Chollie, how do you do!

>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).  <...>
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:36:44 -0400, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:

>Wow, this is also cool!  :-)
>The pronunciation of `ayin as /N/ also survives in the vernacularized
>Yiddish form of _Ya`aqov_, pronounced /'jaNk@v/.
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(unpublished) conlangs descending from Arabic.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?


Basilius