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  • From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • To: "Will Parsons" <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yemenite Hebrew
  • Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 07:04:18 +0100


From: "Will Parsons" <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>

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The elimination can also just be an internal "spontaneous" change.
A.
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Sure it's possible. Let's see. Non-daghes daleth is pronounced [d] in
Ashkenazic. German, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian &c. have no phoneme [ð].
Yememite Hebrew has [ð] for non-daghesh daleth. Arabic had/has a phoneme
[ð]. It *could* be coincidence...

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yes there are plenty of coincidences.
French is the only Romance language with ö and ü, next to a Germanic language with ö and ü, and next to a Uralic language with ö and ü.
I don't think this is anything but a chance coincidence.
A
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The opposition voiced / voiceless is widespread in the sytem of English,
so it's "costless" to keep it here.

I'm not saying it isn't.

In addition dh is mainly attested in grammatical morphemes.

And your point is?
William Parsons
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I think there's a kind of cohesion between the, this, that, which helps the near useless dh phoneme remain stable.
A.
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