On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Yaakov Stein wrote:
> What was never clear to me was WHY the dagesh changes some of the
> BGDKPT letters in the way is does.
This process is called spirantization. Hurrian is not very well known, but it
didn't have spirantization. If I remember correctly from my articles at home,
it had devoicing in intervocalic environments, not spirantization.