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Re: [westasianconlangs] Re: Ajami alphabet and LTS



Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:


> Isaac Penzev wrote:
>
> > I looked into my papers, and found that ġeyn is [R], that may come also
from
> > Romance -rr- as in Portuguese. So 'dog' is _peġo_ < perro, written as
پيغ .
>
> Too bad there is no r with dot above in Latin-3!

Haste does not make right. I looked again at the paper feeling there was
something wrong with this form, and realised that it was version 0.2,
abandoned long ago. So, ġeyn indeed is /R/, but -rr- remains a plain
geminate /r:/, and thus 'dog' is پيرُّ .

-- Yitzik