Arabic-L:LING:Taltalah thanks

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Date: 16 Nov 1999
From: David Mehall <MEHALLD at gunet.georgetown.edu>
Subject: Taltalah thanks

A word of thanks to Frederic Lagrange and Chouairi, R. MR DFL for their
response to my call for sources relevant to taltala, the pre-Islamic
colloquial speech "defect" of Bahraa' where the imperfect tense stem vowel
/a/ was uttered as /i/. (Ibn ManZu:r 1981:I:442) This so-called defect was
evident in Hebrew, Western Aram. I discovered others, mostly namved on the
quadriliteral I taf`ala pattern: ghamghama, the tendancy of Quda`a to
mutter or speak indictinctly; or `an`ana, Tamim's tendancy to pronounce the
glottal stop /'/ in place of the `ayn /`/. (Rabin:1956:61)
Thanks again to my colleagues for their time and support.
wa-s-ala:m

Dawoud Mehall

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