Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

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.

> (2) With (some of) the contractions and other changes described in
> Arabic grammars for 'weak' roots - the difference from the modern
> state being that (no less than) two additional long vowels were still
> distinct from the original long ones: [O:] < awa and [E:] < aja.
Are those phonemic in modern Arabic? I thought that *awa and *aya both ended
up simply as /a:/.

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo