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Re: questions about Arabic

From:David Peterson <digitalscream@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 20, 2001, 17:54
In a message dated 3/20/01 5:59:19 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

<< And is the root P`L cognate with F`L (I would say yes at first glance)

meaning "to do" in Arabic? >>

Yes.  /p/ has the allophones [p] and [phi] (don't know how to write it;
voiceless, bilabial fricative).  There's no /f/.

-David

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