12-02-2014, 02:19 AM
Depends on a lot of things and is quite different between subdialects. Zqafa tends to be more rounded where pthakha tends to be unrounded. In dialects like Western Classical Syriac and Turoyo, of course, zqafa not only was very rounded, it fell back in the throat to an "o" sound. In Galilean, the equivalents of zqafa and pthakha merged, leaving only one a-class vowel that in some cases swapped with shwa depending on emphasis.
Peace,
-Steve
Peace,
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