Re: another silly phonology question
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 29, 2000, 14:36 |
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jim Taylor wrote:
> 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)
Elsewhere, too, apparently: Mu'ammar Qadhdhafi's name once appeared at the
bottom of a letter (in English) as "Gadhafi".
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