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The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called ziqq, may not have been based on a hieroglyph, and may have depicted a "fetter". [1]An alternative view is that it is based on the "copper ingot" hieroglyph in the form of an axeblade, after noting that the name "zayin" has roots in Aramaic to refer to "Arms," "Armor," and "Metal used for arms."
Final-obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as Catalan, German, Dutch, Quebec French, Breton, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Turkish, and Wolof. In such languages, voiced obstruents in final position (at the end of a word) become voiceless before voiceless consonants and in pausa.
Most commonly, the change is a result of sound assimilation with an adjacent sound of opposite voicing, but it can also occur word-finally or in contact with a specific vowel. For example, the English suffix -s is pronounced [s] when it follows a voiceless phoneme (cats), and [z] when it follows a voiced phoneme (dogs). [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. Last letter of the Latin alphabet This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the Greek letter with the same symbol, see Zeta. For other uses, see Z (disambiguation). Z Z z Usage Writing system Latin script Type Alphabetic and logographic Language of origin Latin ...
In German, [s̺] was early on voiced to [z̺] in prevocalic position. This sound was then fronted to [z], but did not merge with any other sound (except that it was later re-devoiced in some southern dialects). In pre-consonantal and final position, [s̺] merged with either [s] or [ʃ]. The rules for these mergers differ between dialects.
In the early Middle Ages, z between vowels represented the affricate , [2] not yet /z/. In early Old Occitan, z represented [t͡s] in final position. [4] In the late Middle Ages, the letter a went from [a] to [ɑ] in unaccented position and in stressed syllables followed by a nasal consonant. [5]
Former President Donald Trump will get the final word when he debates President Joe Biden on CNN next week, after a coin flip to determine podium placement and the order of closing statements.
If the rule which deletes word-final /-ə/ in French had been applied before another rule which deletes word-final consonants before another consonant, this would have been an example of feeding order and the "final output" form (surface form) would have been [pəti njɛs] instead. A counter-feeding order very often creates phonological opacity ...