Timeline for Concerning Semitic Pronunciation of Pharyngeal Letters
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| Dec 15, 2014 at 19:29 | vote | accept | rosenjcb | ||
| Dec 15, 2014 at 18:25 | comment | added | user6726 | You could try "Comparative semitic linguistics : a manual" by Patrick Bennett -- could be in a nearby library. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 17:38 | comment | added | rosenjcb | Would you happen to know any later or more common books on the subject that I can reference? Not finding it in my school's library. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 17:06 | comment | added | user6726 | By "PS consonants", I mean the consonants of Proto-Semitic. It is clear that there are certain consonant distinctions in Proto-Semitic, but we don't know how they are pronounced. The letters <s š ś> are used in some reconstructions, but it's debatable how these were pronounced (one of these might be ɬ; Arabic "dad" might come from or even have been originally pronounced as ɮ). The book I mentioned is probably available in any well-stocked research library, and not many other place, so good luck with that. Oldest Aramaic failed to distinguish "q1" and "q2" but this was later fixed. | |
| Dec 15, 2014 at 11:45 | comment | added | rosenjcb | Would you mind elaborating on what the "PS consonants" are and what you mean about the vagueness of the difference between the original phonetic values and consonants? I'm sorry that I lack the technical vocabulary, I've never had any formal education in linguistics itself. Also, what is the correspondence between the " Targum Aramaic ʕ and Arabic ḍ"? Do you mean the Babylonian (Bavli) or the Jerusalem (Yerushalmi) dialect? And in which sense is their correspondence? Are the phonetic values the same or...? I'm sure all of this is explained in the paper, but I don't know where to find it. | |
| Dec 14, 2014 at 22:09 | history | answered | user6726 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |