| Autor: |
Brown, Jonathan A. C. |
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Journal of Semitic Studies; Autumn2007, Vol. 52 Issue 2, p335-368, 34p |
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The history of the phoneme dād and its merger with the phoneme zā' has proven enigmatic. By presenting data from Old South Arabian speech communities and lexical data from the Islamic tradition, this article brackets a period of dād / zā' free variation between the fourth and mid-eighth centuries CE. These data support the theory that the pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabic speech community was divided into two segments in respect to the dād / zā' relationship: a group that pronounced both separately and produced the lettered tradition of the Qur'ān, and some that did not distinguish between the two phonemes. This article presents data from the earliest Arabic texts on dād / zā' minimal pairs, those of Abu 'Umar al-Zāhid (d. 345/957) and al-Sahib Ismā'īl Ibn 'Abbād (d. 385/995). These texts also provide glimpses into how the Islamic lexical tradition explained the historical link between the two phonemes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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