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Also, Semitic emphatics were likely originally ejectiv, not pharyngealized.
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"Also, Semitic emphatics were likely originally ejective, not pharyngealized."
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Rather, if we want to explain these loans by a stage of Semitic with voiced emphatics, we'll then need a later stage of emphatic devoicing.
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Tropylium: Medial PS emphatics yield MIE mediae well, in the one example you have, but PS mediae yield MIE glottalics?
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And as for the emphatics' fate, no, I'm not after a sound change that radiates from IE to Semitic.
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"Rather, if we want to explain these loans by a stage of Semitic with voiced emphatics,... we'll then need a later stage of emphatic devoicing."
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Even then, we may wonder if such sounds wouldn't be better approximated by MIE's own "voiced emphatics" the creaky voiced stops?
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Aluckily, there is evidence for a fully voiced pronunciation of emphatics from Arabic.
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"The problem with this is that AFAIK any actual PS clusters of such sort don't turn into emphatics!"
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So without ejectives in Mid IE, these exotic Semitic emphatics would have to be interpreted into Pre-IE another way.
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