Re: Velarization
| From: | Krista Casada <kcasada@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 27, 2007, 19:07 |
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Which Arabic consonants, specifically, are being talked about here?
Krista
----- Original Message -----
From: Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date: Sunday, May 27, 2007 11:25 am
Subject: Re: Velarization
To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> On 27.5.2007 Herman Miller wrote:
> > Arabic has a whole set of "emphatic" consonants, which isn't
> exactly
> > what you're looking for, but similar.
> >
>
> It may be. The emphatics are velarized in some dialects
> and pharyngealized in others. If I understood my source
> right there is even some idiolectal variation.
>
> BTW some varieties of Swedish have what boils down
> to a three-way distinction between /s`_G/~/s`/~/s\/.
>
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