Re: another silly phonology question
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 30, 2000, 1:29 |
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Jim Taylor tleiseiç:
> In the Arabic of the Gulf States (Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait etc.) the
> letter 'qaf' is pronounced and often transcribed as /g/.
Interesting. I'd heard about the pronunciation /g"/ (voiced uvular
fricative), presumably that was the intermediate? Interesting way that
those dialects have partially restored symmetry in the stops. Now they
just need to acquire a /p/ somehow, and they'd be nice and symmetrical.
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