Re: CHAT: (no subject)

Austin wrote:

>Tom, there is one more thing I forgot to add:  I have no idea what a
>labial is (but I'm working on it), I don't care if my language has
>all the possible labials, and I absolutely detest the letter "p".
>Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Arabs, most Berbers, and South Arabians don't like /p/ either; they convert
Proto-Semitic and Proto-Afro-Asiatic *p to *f.  (Egyptian somehow has both
/p/ and /f/ as well as /b/, so there might've been a normal /p/ *and* an
emphatic /p/ as well.)

What confuses me is how Modern Standard Arabic has /dZ/ for Proto-Semitic
*g, but not /tS/ for PS *k?  Especially if you also have the phoneme /q/?

Danny

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