Re: NATLANG: Arabic Pronunciation
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 15, 2003, 8:13 |
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From: "Elliott Lash" <erelion12@...>
> How does one say 'grandmother' in Classical Arabic?
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> Surely someone must know...Danny Wier perhaps?
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> Is is /Zida/ or /gida/ or /dZida/ ?
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> jim + daal + taa-marbuuTa
Wow, ismee (my name) got mentioned! Of course I'm neither an expert on
Arabic nor a native speaker. I do know that Egyptian Arabic vernacular has
[g] for djeem instead of [dZ], which reflects an obvious Semitic archaism.
[Z] appears, I believe, in Maghrebi (Moroccan, Algerian etc.). French
colonial influence perhaps?