fricatives

I'll tell you what it doth profit as soon as I can untie my tongue from these frigging fricatives.

Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot Con Chapman 2011

They could take on breath but remain voiceless; both voice and delayed breath; only voice; or full voice and aspiration at consonant onset, resulting in voiced fricatives.

PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009

Many languages have bilabial fricatives such as Irish, Andalusian and Japanese.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Frisian voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives only in loans, mostly from English.

The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009

Nothing tangible at all in the classical linguistic corpus suggests to us that chi is even occasionally a fricative in the Etruscan language, although I've spoken about the probability that velar fricatives existed word-internally in a more ancient stage of Pre-Etruscan some time ago see Paleoglot: The loss of mediofinal 'h' in Pre-Proto-Etruscan.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Aside from the fact that ejective fricatives like /sʼ/ are uncommon in languages, this doesn't even fit the phonologies of the surrounding area where the only thing remotely similar might be the Semitic pharyngeal series.

A new value for Minoan 'd' 2009

McWhorter discusses several lines of evidence, including Proto-Germanic's substitution of fricatives for stop consonants (compare English's father with Latin's pater), its tendency to put verbs into the past tense by simply changing the vowel (e.g. drink/drank), and its extreme simplification of the IE case system.

The line between cranks and scholars Kylopod 2009

Frisian voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives only in loans, mostly from English.

The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009

McWhorter discusses several lines of evidence, including Proto-Germanic's substitution of fricatives for stop consonants (compare English's father with Latin's pater), its tendency to put verbs into the past tense by simply changing the vowel (e.g. drink/drank), and its extreme simplification of the IE case system.

Archive 2009-04-01 Kylopod 2009

Frisian has an almost complete set of guttural/velar, dental/alveolar, labial/labiodental consonants voiced and unvoiced plosives, voiced and unvoiced fricatives, nasals and half-vocals, an s, sh, r and l.

The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone 2009