Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

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> Behalf Of Vasiliy Chernov
> Sent: Friday, 26 January, 2001 1:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: An arabo-romance conlang?
[regarding Mozarabic wasn't it?]

> t'  >  [t.] ('emphatic' t)
> t_l' (or maybe s_l') > [d.] ('emphatic' d)
> c' (or already s') > [s.] ('emphatic' s)
> k' > [q] (the uvular/back velar stop, _qaf_; in the times you are
> interested in hardly different from k and g in the place of articulation)
Lateral release? Where did that come from, a local dialect of Arabic?
(Proto-Semitic supposedly had tl' and hl which correspond to Arabic emphatic
d and Hebrew sin.)

> Modern interdentals (T, D) were affricates (exact quality unclear).
> The glottalized affricate of the same row (different from the s'/c' >
> [s.] mentioned above) turned into modern [z.] ('emphatic' z).
Based on Proto-Semitic reconstruction, I think Arabic th, dh and emph. z
came from tS, dZ, emph. tS (emphatic being ejective or pharyngealized).


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