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Re: The status of the glottal stop in Hebrew

From:Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 6, 2004, 2:42
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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