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--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@hidden.email> wrote: > Actually, interestingly, the Yemenites i've heard > pronounce /q/ as [g]! That is too cool! That is exactly what C-a does with Arabic borrowings which include the /q/ . . . it pronounces it as [g]. Neatness. Adam > Probably to make up for the fact that they > pronounce the two > allophones of /g/ as [dZ] and [G]. But from what i > remember of the > "Pronunciations of Hebrew" article in the > Encyclopedia Judaica, there > are actually 5 different Yemenite accents. > > > -Stephen (Steg) ===== Fached il prori ul pañeveju mutu chu djul atexindu. -- Carrajena proverb