Arabic-L:LING:Emphatics in Classical Arabic query

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Date: 01 Feb  2005
From:Rnorm25 at aol.com
Subject:Emphatics in Classical Arabic query

I have a question  about classical Arabic.  I have read  that some
theorize
that most or all of the emphatics were original voiced in  classical
Arabic.
(Given their  description as majhoor by the grammarians) Has anything
been
written about the  possibility that there was no voiced/voiceless
distinction in
the emphatic  consonants in proto-Arabic and classical Arabic; that
these were
actually just  allophones of the same phonemes.  This is the case with
T/D in
many modern Bedouin Arabic dialects.  Also even in some readings of the
Quran
there is emphatic Saad read as Zaad with voicing.  Any information on
this
subject and the  conditions that may have caused this allophonic
variation would
be  appreciated.
Thanks

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