Re: CHAT: weird names
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 8, 1999, 4:06 |
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Tom Wier wrote:
> andrew wrote:
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> > Originally it was the k-sound that occured before back vowels I believe:
> > qo, qu, but now only survives in the quV cluster. It has its origins in
> > the semitic letter qoph, which was the back k sound.
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> ...which was uvular, not velar, IIRC.
>
Darn, those back parts of the mouth always catch me out!
- andrew.
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