| From: | Jim Taylor <friartuk@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 12:41 |
>> Arabic has the pairs /k/ ~ /g/; /t/ ~ /d/, but only /b/, there being >> no /p/.>> Ray.->If i remember correctly, only Egyptian Arabic has /g/. The others all >pronounce that phoneme as /dZ/ or /Z/.In the Arabic of the Gulf States (Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait etc.) the letter 'qaf' is pronounced and often transcribed as /g/. eg. 'Cairo is beautiful': /el qahira gamiila/ (Egyptian Arabic) /al gahira dZamiila/ (Gulf Arabic) Jim.