The Case for Fricative-laterals in Proto-Semitic

African Akkadian allophone Almoravid ancient Arabia Arabic dialect Arabic loanwords attested Babylonian balsamon Biblical Botahari Brockelmann Cantineau century Chaldaeans chapter cognates consonants correspondence ḍād Dictionary dissimilation doublets E. J. Brill emphatic Ethiopic etymological evidence for lateral example explanation fact free variation Fresnel fricative Garbini Gerrha glottalized Grammatik grapheme Greek Gurage Harsusi Hausa Hebrew Hetzron ibid inscriptions Islam Jahn Jamme Jerusalem Kabardian kaldu Kitāb Kutscher lām langue lateral hypothesis Leiden Lepsius Leslau Linguistic Malay Mandaic Masoretes Mehri merged merger minimal pairs Modern South Arabic Moscati Old Akkadian Old Aramaic original phoneme place of articulation present writer problem pronunciation Proto-Semitic qišda realization reflex rendering root Ruldayu scholars seems Semitic languages Shahari Sībawaihi sibilants Socotri sound sound-change South Semitic Syriac Thomas tion tongue transliterated Ugaritic University Press variant velar voiced fricative-lateral voiceless fricative-lateral vowel word Yushmanov Zeitschrift Zufār