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Katav Steg Belsky: > On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 08:18 AM, Isaac Penzev wrote: > > 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]. > > Actually, interestingly, the Yemenites i've heard pronounce /q/ as [g]! > 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. Hebrew accents are weird! All I can say (to avoid YAHPT) is that [q]::[k] opposition is not unheard. <humor> For a "Russian" all "Moroccans" speak gibberish! </humor> - often heard from my Israeli friends. -- Yitzik