Arabic-L:LING:Daad

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 03 Mar 2003
From: Chris H <kaix04holmanski77 at hotmail.com>
Subject:Daad

Greetings everyone,

I am by no means a linguistic expert but I am familiar with the saying
"Arabic is the language of the Daad".  This leads me to believe that
there
must be one particular sound that is being referred to in order to
separate
Arabic from any other language in the world.  The idea that it is the
language of the Daad is that there are no other languages with this
sound
in it.  Granted, we've seen in the other responses all of the different
versions of sounds for this letter.  Still, I just thought that I would
post this saying as it seems that it hints at one particular sound
(perhaps
its pronunciation in MSA?).  I could be wrong of course.

For what it's worth,

Chris Holman
Chrish at oregon.uoregon.edu

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