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1. Arnaud katav
4. Glottalized emphatics: lost
This assumes that the Ethiopic languages are preserving the
original sound and are not areal features borrowed from Cushitic.
of course, even with 'retracted-tongue-root' "emphatics" one
still has to deal with Tet and Qof assimilating to tav and kaf.
Also, Sa(de) with samex (but see #8 below).
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Hebrew itself very clearly indicates that emphatics must have been
glottalized in Ancient Hebrew, as vowels are not at all colored in any way
by emphatics.
Conclusive.
A.
7. Laterals fricatives: lost
This was already lost in some dialects by the time Ahiram and Shlomo
were talking to each other (10 BCE), as evidenced by the Phoenician
alphabet.
How do you explain Greek ba-ls-am < baSam "perfume" then?
When do you think this word was borrowed into Greek?
A.
8. Affricates: lost (except Tsade)
Tsade emically preserves what may have been a pharyngealized sibilant.
It represents the fusion of a glottalized affricate and a glottalized
lateral stop.
A.
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This is like saying that English when read with French prosody and French
letter values is not a major blockage.
I consider this to be nonsense.
A.
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