Sobre el consonantismo protosemítico II

Abstract

In this article the review of the book by Prof. Gregorio del Olmo Lete, Questions de linguistique sémitique, published in this periodical (54, 2005, pp. 244-260), is continued with special attention paid to chapter III of that book, “Le système consonantique (proto-) sémitique”. The author adds some reflections of his own on question of comparative Semitic phonology raised in more o less recent times such as the `Affricate Hypothesis´, the articulation of `interdentals´ and `laterals´ and other items. At the end a putative reconstruction of the Proto-Semitic (Proto-Afroasiatic) consonantal system is attempted.