Re: Emphatics?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 16, 2003, 14:29 |
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:00:45 +0100 Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> writes:
> What are "emphatic" consonants? The Language Construction Kit says
> "Don't ask", but that only makes me want to know even more!
> Pete
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"Emphatic" is a general term for a category of consonant phonemes in the
Semitic language family that differ in some back-of-the-throat way from
the others. In some languages they're glottalized ejectives, while in
others they're pharyngealized. For instance, the |S| in "Saddam" isn't
the Arabic consonant |siin| /s/, but |Saad| /s_?\/ (pharyngealized s).
-Stephen (Steg)
"salaam, `aleinu ve`al kol ha`olam..."