Re: Semitic rhotic questions -- part 2

On Saturday, November 8, 2003, at 02:47 PM, Adam Walker wrote:

> --- Adam Walker <carrajena@...> wrote:
>> 1. Does anyone know with any acceptable degree of
>> certainty what the actual value of the Biblical
>> Hebrew
>> rhotic was?
>
> Okay.  For my purposes, I'm convinced (enough) that a
> trill in the "correct" value and will be asjusting my
> Hebrew loans accordingly.  The following questions
> (except 2)have not yet been touched upon.
>
>>
>> 2. Is that value (if it is "known") considered
>> consistant with other Semitic langs (eg. Phonecian)
>> of
>> that branch?
>>
>> 3. What is the value of the rhotic in Classical
>> Arabic?
Apical trill  /r/

>> 4. What is the value in the major modern dialects,
>> especially those of North Africa, Egyptian, Dardja
>> and
>> Moroccan?
Don't know - but Maltese, which is derived from Arabic,
has /r/.