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Re: [romconlang] Random Judajca Phrase



On Apr 19, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Isaac Penzev wrote:
Steg Belsky wrote:
<<although i realized there's probably an Aramaicized dialect in the
north, which in popular opinion may be considered 'bad Judajca' but
linguists know that it just has a different adstrate).>>

Does it have a postpositional article in contrast to plain "ha" ?

Probably, although i don't know yet what it looks like.

<<Judajca's Semitic-style emphatic consonants developed roughly like
this:>>

Are they deemphasized in Modern pronunciation e.g. [s>] > [ts)]?

Nope!  Yay for emphatics! ;)
Although /s>/ might actually be pronounced [ts)>] now that i think about it.


-Stephen (Steg)
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