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Re: Alborgian/ Borgi

From:Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder@...>
Date:Monday, May 26, 2008, 20:04
Yes, it is

S, T, D etc are emphatic, s, t, d etc regular consonants in Arabic.

Labial consonants: L as in aLLa = Allah, l as in `ala = at, up

Ingmar




On Tue, 27 May 2008 00:21:11 +0800, Eugene Oh <un.doing@...>
wrote:

>Spelling trick? I'm a little confused. Isn't it just capitalising the >letter to indicate emphatic-ness? > >Eugene > >On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
wrote:
>> On 2008-05-24 Ingmar Roerdinkholder wrote: >>> >>> Arab: ta tau tai tu => Alb: t[E] t[2] t[ie] t[y] >>> Arab: Ta Tau Tai Tu => Alb: t[a] t[o] t[e] t[u] >>> >>> t = regular consonant, T = emphatic >>> >> >> How is this spelling trick done with labial consonants? >> >> /BP >>