Sound change

[David Gil]

Not quite the same thing, but in the same ballpark:  the Proto-Semitic 
voiced "emphatic" apical stop (corresponding to the Arabic DaD) went, in 
Biblical Aramaic, to an unvoiced uvular stop, and from there to a voiced 
pharyngeal fricative.


Wolfgang Schulze wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> just a brief question: Within the context of my research on Caucasian 
> Albanian (Old Udi), I  came across a rather remarkable instance of 
> 'sound replacement' in loans: A palatal voiceless fricative (<sh>) is 
> (systematically?) replaced by a voiced pharyngeal stop. I wonder 
> whether some of you have come across a parallel process in other 
> languages...
> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang
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