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Subject: Re: Assyria, Aramaic
From: "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net>
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On Oct 9, 12:11=C2=A0pm, Yusuf B Gursey <ygur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 9, 9:46=C2=A0am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Oct 9, 2:31=C2=A0am, Yusuf B Gursey <ygur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > in Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies, Vol. 18, no. 2, 2004
> > > "National and Ethnic Identity in the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Assyrian
> > > Identity in Post-Empire Times" Simo Parpola writes:
>
> > > =C2=A0<<
>
> > > The word A=C5=A1=C5=A1=C5=ABr=C4=81yu is an adjective derived from th=
e geographical and
> > > divine name A=C5=A1=C5=A1ur with the gentilic suffix -=C4=81yu. This =
name was
> > > originally
> > > pronounced [A=C5=A1=C5=A1=C5=ABr], with a palato-alveolar fricative, =
but owing to a
> > > sound shift, its pronunciation was turned to [A=CE=B8=CE=B8=C5=ABr] i=
n the early
> > > second millennium BC.52 =C2=A0The common Aramaic word for Assyria, =
=C4=80=CE=B8=C5=ABr,
> > > reflects this pronunciation and in all probability dates back to the
> > > twelfth century BC, when the Aramean tribes first came into contact
> > > with the Assyrians. Towards the end of the second millennium, another
> > > sound shift took place in Assyrian, turning the pronunciation of the
> > > name into [Ass=C5=ABr].
>
> > > =C2=A0>>
>
> > > isn't it =C2=A0=CE=B8 > =C5=A1 ?
>
> > That's Hebrew. The interdentals become sibilants in Hebrew, stops in
> > Aramaic, and are preserved in Arabic.
>
> I know. how about Assyrian / Akkadian?-

The various dialects and periods differ wildly over the millennia. The
latest analyses are found in several chapters of the 2011 Handbook of
the Semitic Languages (de Gruyter), as well as, for the earliest
stages of Akkadian in its dialectal and Sumerian context,  in a
chapter of *The Idea of Writing: Writing across Borders* ed. de Voogt
and Quack (Brill, 2011).

[I'm reviewing the former for the web site Review of Biblical
Literature, and I refereed the ms. of the latter for the publisher;
the chapter in question was greatly clarified in accordance with my
comments.]