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I'm reading about how in San'ani Arabic and Mehri voiced and emphatic sounds get glottalized allophonically as opposed to voiceless (aspirated) stops, and now I'm wondering if the "qalqala" described in tajwid books could refer to an ejective pronunciation instead of a regular
I always assumed yhere was a click in his name because of the spelling according to Zulu/Xhosa so I thought it was supposed to be pronounced [seǃwale] but apparently <x> is just [x] in Venda which I would have never known hes Venda
Wdym Grierson documents the Kokni variety spoken by Muslim Konkanis between the villages of Samgeshwar and Mandagand but mentions absolutely nothing about Memoni spoken by Memon Muslims in Kutch and Gujarat not even one mention of it
Trying to find any reasonable or regular rules for finding out when *s and *ś becomes h in my Gujarati dialect is driving me crazy because it's so random 😭😭😭
General rule seems to be it's avoided word finally but there's so many examples against that
Voicing distinctions pattern differently to articulatory positions and manners I'm pretty sure
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Next time someone pitches a fit over “Averroes” for “Ibn Rušd” because “tHaT’s nOt HiS nAmE” I am going to explain my dismay at Arabs referring to Aristotle and Cicero as [ʔaristˤuː] and [ʃiːʃaruːn]. Then I will ask them to swear never to speak of “Confucius” but rather of [kʰˤoŋʔtsəʔ], to refer to Ramesses II only as [ɾiːʕaʔməˈsiːsu], and to call King Xerxes by no other name than [χʃəjaːr̥ʃaː].
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Pahari dialect of #Galiyat #Abbotabad along with
spectrogram of /ka/ 'grass' and /kær/ 'house' and Punjabi from Faisalabad for comparison of pitch contours.
Most South Africans have no phonemic /ɪ/ in our dialects
It's treated as positional allophone of /ə/ when next to velars /k ɡ ŋ/, before postalveolar consonants /ʃ ʒ tʃ dʒ/, word initially and after /h/
Compare
/pəl/ /piːl/
And
[sɪk] /siːk]
I did my vowel charts a while ago its way reduced than most common English varieties
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Persian saying:
“Khoob kon va be daryâ bendâz” (خوب کن و به دریا بینداز): “Do good, and throw [the good deed] it into the sea.”
Meaning do good deeds but don’t expect anything in return. Do it because being good should be mankind’s natural state of affairs.
If your conceptions of race and identity are so black and white that you take it based on some arbitrary national laws classifications and now the true complex history it is, you're racist
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🧵| Some interesting similarities I noticed between Syriac and the Modern South Arabian languages (mainly Jibbali)
*Doubled root gemination moving to the first consonant in the short prefix conjugation (S. šbb Perf. 3ms šaḇ 3fs šebbaṯ PCS 3ms neššoḇ, J šbb Perf. 3ms šeb 3fs šəbbɔ́t PCS 3ms yɔššəb)