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The opposition /tʃ/ vs./tʃh/ in Neo-Aramaic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

Edward Y. Odisho
Edward Y. Odisho
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(Al-Mustansiriyah University, Iraq)
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In 1913 Le Maître Phonétique published the first ever phonetic text of Neo-Aramaic (Neo-Syriac) in IPA. It was contributed by Osipov (Osipoff) who, according to Jones (1950), was a remarkable linguist and phonetician. The text had, however, been the cause of a dispute between Jones and Passy. The latter had reacted so strongly to Osipov' phonetic representation of the feature of aspiration that he described the language (i.e. Syriac) as ‘Langue excentrique’ (Passy, 1913). According to Polotsky (1961) ‘this epithet refers to the bewildering abundance of aspiration marks in Osipov's text and to their occurrence in unexpected surroundings’.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1977 , pp. 79 - 83
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1977

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