Re: An arabo-romance conlang?
| From: | J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 2, 2001, 1:18 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:17:12PM -0500, Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
> > In Semitic langs themselves, pharyngeals are often a result of wealening
> > the uvulars (in fact, all well attested languages except Arabic had lost
> > their uvulars this way).
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> Pharyngeals are *weakened* uvulars? The world is a very strange place,
> seeing as how I can produce uvulars just fine but pharyngeals give me
> trouble...
Pharyngeals are *not* weakened uvulars, at least not literally. Uvulars are made
with constriction at the back of the throat. Pharyngeals are made with
constriction at the pharynx, which likes about halfway down the throat from the
uvula to the glottis.
Matt.