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Re: An arabo-romance conlang?

From:Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>
Date:Friday, January 26, 2001, 22:12
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:/. -- Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo