| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 6, 1999, 23:12 |
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, R G Roberts wrote:> By the way, how does 'q' fit into all this? >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.>- andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz