Re: CHAT: weird names
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 7, 1999, 13:03 |
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andrew wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, R G Roberts wrote:
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> > By the way, how does 'q' fit into all this?
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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.
...which was uvular, not velar, IIRC.
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