[b-hebrew] Was Schewa really silent?

Yitzhak Sapir yitzhaksapir at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 13:41:10 EDT 2007


On 9/7/07, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> I sent the following reply immediately after your question:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2007-August/033489.html
>
> What does it lack in the way of evidence?
>
> Note, regarding Khan's second point relating to the Karaite
> manuscript BL Or. 2554, that this is a Karaite manuscript
> apparently transliterating some of the Song of Songs (or all
> of it) into Arabic, using at times Arabic vocalization.  The
> sukun is an Arabic vocalization that looks like a small zero,
> and means just that - no vowel.

James,

You replied to my question above off-list.
Replying to you off-list generated an error message that the address from
which you posted is invalid.
I do not post on-list replies to off-list messages, so if you would like me to
reply please post your reply on list.

Yitzhak Sapir


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