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----- Original Message ----- From: etherman23 <etherman23@hidden.email> To: <westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 11:45 PM Subject: [westasianconlangs] Re: New Semitic-based conlang > --- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "nathanielamentstone" > <natcas@l...> wrote: > > > > > q is a uvualr stop, right. So prepare your mouth for a /k/ sound > > but > > > move your tongue further back. Unfortunately when I do it I > > get /q'/, > > > that is, an uvular ejective. > > > > THANK YOU! I thought it was some sort of "gulping /g/"! > > I think that would be more of an implosive sound (which is basically > the voiced counterpart to an ejective). Anyway, in Modern Standard Arabic it is an uvular stop [q]. Yemenite and other Eastern Jews pronounce the same in Modern Hebrew, though the standard pronunciation is more European - just [k]. -- Yitzik