Phonology of the Late Babylonian cuneiform signs for sibilants
Kassian A. S., Popova O. V. Phonology of the Late Babylonian cuneiform signs for sibilants / Ancient Near Eastern Studies 60 (2023), 225-242
Касьян Алексей Сергеевич, Попова Ольга Витальевна
The Late Babylonian cuneiform orthography consistently discriminates between four sibilants, s-, z-, ṣand š-series, to express phonemes, which go back to Proto-Semitic *ʦ *ʣ *ʦ *š respectively. The exact phonetic representation of the LB sibilants remains controversial. We analyze the LB spelling system and morphophonology as well as the linguistic data of the languages which were in contact with LB (Ancient Greek, Old Iranian, Aramaic). We conclude that the Late Babylonian cuneiform writing reflects the phonetic peculiarities of the spoken language relatively consistently and that the s-, z-, ṣ- and š-series covered /s/, /z/, /ṣ/, /š/ respectively in Late Babylonian.
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Doi: 10.2143/ANES.60.0.0000000