Re: mahlab
| From: | David Peterson <thatbluecat@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 9:13 |
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Adam wrote:
<< Does anyone know the pronunciation of the Arabic word
"mahlab", the source of mahlab (or mahalab) cherry.
Mainly, I'm interested in the pronunciation of the
"h". Is it /h/ or /x/ or something else?>>
You should've asked this to the westasian conlang list; generate some
traffic.
The "h" is the voiceless, pharyngeal fricative [H] (though that's probably
not the correct SAMPA). It's the dotless "jiim", if you know the alphabet.
It's related to the word for "milk", and so forth. Interesting...
-David
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