The Semitic languages that have survived often have fricatives for these consonants .
Affricates in Proto - Semitic were proposed early on but met little acceptance until the work of Alice Faber ( 1981 ) who challenged the older approach .
The Proto - Semitic languages that have survived often have fricatives for these consonants .
Affricates in Proto - Semitic were proposed early on but met little acceptance until the work of Alice Faber ( 1981 ) who challenged the older approach .