Re: Just a Little Taste of Judean (Part 2)

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:51:49 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
>> The Judean version affects the consonants b, c, d, g, p, t, which
>>have
>> 'hard' and 'soft' forms:
>> B - [b] [B]
>> C - [k] [x]
>> D - [d] [z]
>> G - [g] [G]
>> P - [p] [P]
>> T - [t] [s]
>> When ending a syllable, or after a long vowel, the consonant becomes
>>a
>> fricative.  Beginning a syllable after a consonant, or after a short
>> vowel with another vowel afterwards, it's a stop.
>You mean (say) /aba/ = [aba] but /a:ba/ = [a:Ba]? Why's that?
Yup, that's how it works, but i don't know why it works like that.  I
just took the concept of beged-kefet and used it, i don't know how it
came about in Hebrew in the first place.

>Could it be that the long vowel is a product of a short vowel
>plus a fricative, maybe /h/ or something of the sort, that
>when dropped caused a compensatory lengthening? Like this:
>
>/ahba/ > /a:Ba/, the fricative feature of /h/ spreading to /b/.
>
>Well, that's a castle in the air. :)
I don't think it has anything to do with fricatives being absorbed...it's
just a function of the length of the vowel, but i don't know why.

>Anyway, are [B, x, z, G, P, s] possible between short vowels?
>(for example, /aBa/, /axa/, etc.)
Nope.

>--Pablo Flores
>
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-Stephen (Steg)
 _,i ka'ur sudiltao azii-datein ^zek^hh~qeidha-a,._

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