A different path to [f]: labiodentalization in Faifi Arabic
This paper documents historical labiodentalization to [f] in one subvariety of Faifi Arabic (FA), which has not been previously detailed. In this subvariety, spoken in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the sound cognate with the Classical Arabic voiced emphatic (i.e. pharyngealized) dental stop *dˤ (typica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Papers in Historical Phonology |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ed.ac.uk/pihph/article/view/3072 |