tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557845387585250518.post4455954495704093991..comments2024-03-23T15:41:49.224-07:00Comments on Linguistic glob: Venus, Aphrodite and IshtarFatmir Iliazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08635156122898832659noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557845387585250518.post-78849914837283969212014-07-20T22:07:45.550-07:002014-07-20T22:07:45.550-07:00This is very insightful information. As a fellow A...This is very insightful information. As a fellow Albanian thank you for teaching me about our small yet great country's history. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557845387585250518.post-85667715915764562942014-07-19T22:47:22.767-07:002014-07-19T22:47:22.767-07:00About p, b, f, and v sounds:
Comparing the pronun...About p, b, f, and v sounds:<br /><br />Comparing the pronunciation of the p sound and b sound to the f sound and v sound. <br />All four of these sounds require lip position, and the substitution of one sound for another is a common phonetic transformation. In addition.<br />The p sound is an unvoiced stop, the b sound is the similar voiced stop, and the f sound is the similar unvoiced fricative.<br />The f sound and v sound are fricatives and the p sound and b sound are stops. <br />The difference between them:<br /><br />Fricatives are created when the vocal tract is restricted and air is forced through a small opening. The stop sounds require the vocal tract to be closed. With stop sounds, the sound is created when the air is released.<br />The f sound and p sound are alike in that both sounds are unvoiced. This means that the vocal cords do not vibrate during the production of the sound. In contrast, the v sound and b sound are voiced and do include vibration of the vocal cords during the sounds. Since non-native speakers often substitute one voiced sound for another voiced sound, or one unvoiced sound for another unvoiced sound, it is often helpful to practice sounds in those pairs.<br />The f sound and v sound sounds are articulated when the backside of the bottom lip is placed close to the bottom of the top front teeth. When air is pushed between the bottom lip and the top teeth, friction occurs and sound is created. The p sound and b sound are articulated by pressing the front lips together and stopping the air, then quickly releasing it. When the p sound is at the beginning of a word, its release is aspirated (accompanied by a puff of air). If this aspiration is not strong enough, a listener may hear a v sound, even if the air was adequately stopped before the release. <br /><br />http://www.philology-upatras.gr/en/department/glossologyFatmir Iliazihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08635156122898832659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-557845387585250518.post-24562160188297063172014-07-19T16:29:50.734-07:002014-07-19T16:29:50.734-07:00The Proto-Albanian forms of 'afër' and ...The Proto-Albanian forms of 'afër' and 'dita' were *apsera and *dītā where the macrons over the vowels mean long vowels. In Ancient Greek, /ph/ was a different /p/ sound, not an /f/, and not /ps/. Those two /p/ and /pʰ/ were different in their ears, but sound the same to someone untrained. They had a /ps/ sound, and they also had long vowels, lost in Modern Greek. Yet, Aphrodites name is never written with long vowels or /ps/, so it cannot be borrowed from Albanian. <br /><br />On the other hand check out the word Ξάνθος (xanthos) meaning 'yellow', that seemsto be borrowed from the Albanian word for moon (T) 'hënë' ~ (G) 'hân' where the circumflex means nasal vowel. We know from Slavic loanwords in Albanian that /ks/ became /h/ over time thus the original form of the word for moon was *ksandā, the short vowel became /ë/ in Tosk, and /â/ in Gheg, while the long vowel became /ë/ in Tosk (all nasal vowels became ë, Tosk has less than half the vowels of Gheg), but lost in Gheg. Greek /x/ today is differnt, but once it was pronounced /ks/. We know from Anatolian loanwrds in Ancient Greek, /nd/ became /nth/, so *ksandā > Ξάνθος is very plausible. Keep in mind Albanian uses a taboo name for the moon, referring to a color, different from the word for 'month' 'muaj'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com