Arabic-L:LING:l to n change in Arabic

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:Adam McCollum <acmccollum101 at gmail.com>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Off the top of my head I do not know of any studies dealing  
specifically with this well-known phenomenon (outside of Semitic  
languages too, e.g. Grk. πορφύρα and Lat. purpura but purple in  
Eng.; Eng. paper, but Span. papel), but for examples from a  
comparative Semitics perspective see Sabatino Moscati, ed. An  
Introduction to the Comparative Grammar of the Semitic Languages  
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1964) §8.26 and C. Brockelmann, Kurzgefasste  
vergleichende Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen (Berlin: Reuter &  
Reichard, 1908) §47.  I do not have Brockelmann's much larger  
Grundriß der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen to hand  
but, if you have access to it, check the table of contents or index  
for "Dissimilation von Sonoren" or the like).  I hope that helps.
Adam McCollum

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Dear Munther,

In Cairene Arabic, I have also heard the reverse when a nasal changes  
to a lateral sound (n -----> l) in a word like fingaan "cup," which is  
also pronounced fingaal by some.

To add to the examples you have cited of lateral changing to nasal (l  
---------> n), the Arabic word for cardamom is of interest. In Iraqi  
and Levantine Arabic it is hel (pronounced with a long vowel) and in  
Standard Arabic it is Hab al-haal. In Egyptian Arabic, the latter is  
assimilated into Habbahaan undergoing the nasal to lateral sound change.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University

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Date: 13 Aug 2008
From:"Schub, Michael B." <Michael.Schub at trincoll.edu>
Subject:l to n change in Arabic

Hi Munther,
       I've heard  /goon/!!!! for /gool/ (in soccer) for 'goal' in  
Egypt. colloq (slang)?
       A children's ball game:  /yin`an  diinak/  for  /yil`an.../.
       The classic essay:  Greenberg, J. "The Patterning of root  
morphemes in Semitic." Word 6 (1950), 162--81.
       Mention must be made of the Qur'anic  /sijjiin/ ~ /sijjiil/,  
prob. both from Latin for 'seal'.
       Best wishes,
                                                          Mike Schub

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