Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew

From: "Outo Otus" <olen_outo_otus@...>

> I would thing [ro?S] and awkward combination, because a glottal stop
> occuring just before another consonant is difficult to pronounce, without
> inserting a shva. For example, try and say [o?t] or something of that
> manner, I personally find it difficult, and end up inserting a shva.
It is difficult, but there are languages that have CV?C syllables; most of
those are found in the Pacific Northwest in Canada and the USA (Na-Dene,
Salishan, Wakashan, Penutian). It's a lot easier if the last consonant can
be a syllabic.

In Hebrew, aleph as glottal stop is one of the few consonants that cannot be
geminated (the others are he, heth, ayin and resh); any consonant can be
doubled in Classical Arabic, but a doubled consonant is always followed by a
vowel.

ObConlang: In Tech, /?/ before consonants is usually lost but changes the
basic vowel /@/ to /a/. And it happens a lot because /?/ is a very common
infix.

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