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> > Gdh PSem Akk Hebr Aram Arab
>
> Why do you omit Ethiopic here?
Only because I do not know anything about Ethiopic.
(BTW, the table in
http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~sphl140/syllabus/phonology.pdf
(243 kByte; II. part of
Outline: Introduction to the Comparative
Study of the Semitic Languages
(we have link to it in Links section))
has 9 columns:
PS Akk. OSA Mehri Eth. Arab. Ugar. Hebr. Aram.)
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> > Akkadian
> > z : d`, z
> [etc.]
>
> I'm sorry, but this part of the chart is totally unclear.
> What do you mean by these proportions?
That the Akk. z may be either PSem. d_ or PSem. z,
so I cannot simply borrow Akk. words containing z
without taking account of cognates in other languages.
P.A.