Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:12:40 -0600 Eric Christopherson
<raccoon@...> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:51:05PM -0500, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> > t'  >  [t.] ('emphatic' t)
> > t_l' (or maybe s_l') > [d.] ('emphatic' d)
> > c' (or already s') > [s.] ('emphatic' s)
> What do you mean by c' here? Ejective palatal stop, or affricate
> maybe? I
> don't remember ever coming across anything about palatal sounds
> other than
> /j/ in Proto-Semitic or Arabic.
> --
> Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo
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The /c/ is probably the affricate /(ts)/, i remember reading that it's
theorized that the Semitic sibilants /s/, /z/, and /s./, were originally
all affricates, that might be what's being referred to here.


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