Re: About Hebrew Emphatics

From:    Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
> > I also usually - but not always - back qo:f as per most modern
> > Boreo-Afrasian langs. Korean does NOT back its emphatic k, and there is
> > a separate series for most Mayan languages, which were my SECOND
> > exposure to emphatics [i.e. k k' q q'].
>
> What was your first? For me it was Georgian, which has p>, t>, ts>, tS>, k>,
> k>w, q> and q>w (one dialect, or one in another Kartvelian language, might
> also have a palatized version of ts>, but I don't know for sure).
I wouldn't call the labialized clusters [k'w] and [q_X'w] unit
phonemes.  As far as palatalized segments go, you're probably
thinking of Abkhaz, which is Northwest Caucasian, not Kartvelian.

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