Arabic-L:LING:reflexes of Daad query

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Date: 20 Feb 2003
From: RamonNorman at aol.com
Subject:reflexes of Daad query

I have a question about Arabic dialectology.  I have a friend who  
traveled to Saudi Arabia to teach English.  He lived in the region of  
Al-Hasa, a region in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia.  While there he  
met individuals that told him that the Arabic letter Daad (Now usually  
a voiced emphatic alveolar stop in Modern Standard Arabic, but  
according to tradition some manner of lateral articulation) should be  
pronounced from the side of the tongue with audible friction.  I am not  
sure if he had the correct pronunciation or not, but to me it sounded  
rather like Dhaa' (The voiced emphatic inter-dental fricative).   
However this lateral fricative articulation is the articulation that  
most specialists in Semitic believe was the original articulation of  
Daad.

Now my question, Is it possible that some dialects of Arabic,  
particularly those confined to the Arabian Peninsula have maintained a  
lateral fricative articulation of Daad?  I am not sure whether or not  
the fricative lateral hypothesis was current when much of the work on  
the Arabic dialects was undertaken so is it possible that improper  
transcription has led us to believe in the universal merger of Daad  
with the Dhaa' in all Bedouin dialects?  Are there any other reflexes  
of classical Arabic Daad in the modern Arabic Dialects?

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