Re: Learning to Speak Arabic


"Mike Wright" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:12h8hmhoevpb2d7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tak To wrote:

Mike Wright wrote:

Tak To wrote:
I meant all the palatals in MC become non-palatals in MM. This
of course depends on whether one count the 心/邪 groups as [c,]/[z,]
or [S]/[Z] in MC, but none of the MC palatalized affricates
remain as palatalized affricates.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Pulleyblank has:
EMC LMC EM
心 /sim/ /sim/ /sim/
邪 /zia/ /sh<?>ia/ /sjE/

(h<?> is the murmured glottal fricative, IPA ɦ)


In my Hakka dialect, these are pronounced

心 /sim33/ (Yin Ping tone)
邪 /sia11/ (Yang Ping tone)

It seems that the old rule of thumb that voiced initialed characters do tend to form as later Yang tone registers.

Dyl.

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